Introducing Qualitative Research in Psychology Third Edition

Introducing Qualitative Research in Psychology Third Edition

Carla Willig

Language: English

Pages: 264

ISBN: 0335244491

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


This vital student resource takes six different approaches to qualitative methods and discusses the techniques to use these in research.

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facilitate comparison between the eight methods, I shall raise three epistemological questions in relation to each approach. These questions are identified in the next section. The final two chapters constitute Part 3 of the book, addressing the question of evaluation of qualitative research (Chapter 14) and the role of qualitative research within the profession of psychology (Chapter 15). All methods chapters in Part 2 include interactive exercises designed to help readers put into practice some

about a social and/or psychological reality which exists independently of the researcher’s awareness of it. As such, this type of research is 68 characterized by a discovery orientation (see Madill et al. 2000). The role of the researcher in this situation is akin to that of a detective who uses his or her skills, knowledge and experience in order to uncover what is really going on. Realist aspirations to knowledge generation range from what is sometimes referred to as ‘naïve’ to more

this in that it does not take accounts of experience entirely ‘at face value’ in the same way; instead, it seeks to also understand the meaning of an account of experience by stepping outside of the account and reflecting upon its status as an account and its wider (social, cultural, psychological) meanings. As Larkin et al. (2006: 104) put it, such an interpretative phenomenological analysis ‘positions the initial “description” in relation to a wider social, cultural, and perhaps even

Suitability for psychological research Three epistemological questions What kind of knowledge does grounded theory aim to produce? 19 What kinds of assumptions does grounded theory make about the world? How does grounded theory conceptualize the role of the researcher in the research process? Conclusion Interactive exercises Further reading Snapshot Box 7.1: Grounded theory or full conceptual description? The debate between Glaser and Strauss 8 Phenomenological methods Learning objectives

wide range of statements with which participants could agree or disagree, they found that women were more conformist when it came to statements about specialist tools, whereas men were more conformist in relation to statements about needlework. There was no difference between men and women in relation to gender-neutral statements. In the earlier studies, gender-related lack of familiarity with stimuli had been taken for female conformity. Even though validity can be a problematic concept for

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