The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Collection

737 Pages·2018·6.46 MB·English

by  Uwe Flick

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International Advisory Editorial Board
Rosaline S. Barbour, Emerita Professor at the Open University, United Kingdom
Marie Buscatto, Professor of Sociology, University of Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, France
Kerry Chamberlain, Professor at Massey University, Albany, New Zealand
Jan K. Coetzee, Senior Professor of Sociology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein,
South Africa
Amanda Coffey, Professor at Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Norman Denzin, Professor of Sociology at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
United States
Nigel G. Fielding, Professor of Sociology, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Jay Gubrium, Professor of Sociology, University of Missouri, United States
Karen Henwood, Professor of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Sonia Livingstone, Professor of Media Research, LSE, London, United Kingdom
Annette N. Markham, Professor at Loyola University, United States, and Aarhus University,
Denmark
Joseph A. Maxwell, Professor Emeritus in the Graduate School of Education, George Mason
University, United States
Donna M. Mertens, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Education, Gallaudet
University, Washington, United States
Michael Murray, Professor of Psychology, Keele University, United Kingdom
Hiroshi Oda, Associate Professor Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University,
Sapporo, Japan
Jin Sun, Professor at the Institute for International & Comparative Education,
Beijing Normal University, China
Wivian Weller, Professor at Faculdade de Educação Universidade de Brasília, Brasilia, Brazil
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Contents
List of Figures ix
List of Tables x
Notes on the Editor and Contributors xi
Acknowledgements xxvii
PARt I CHARtING tHe ROuteS 1
1 Doing Qualitative Data Collection – Charting the Routes 3
Uwe Flick
PARt II CONCePtS, CONtextS, BASICS 17
2 Collecting Qualitative Data: A Realist Approach 19
Joseph A. Maxwell
3 Ethics of Qualitative Data Collection 33
Donna M. Mertens
4 Deduction, Induction, and Abduction 49
Brianna L. Kennedy and Robert Thornberg
5 Upside Down – Reinventing Research Design 65
Giampietro Gobo
6 Sampling and Generalization 84
Margrit Schreier
7 Accessing the Research Field 99
Andrew Bengry
8 Recording and Transcribing Social Interaction 118
Christopher Joseph Jenks
9 Collecting Data in Other Languages – Strategies for Cross-Language
Research in Multilingual Societies 131
Katharina Resch and Edith Enzenhofer
10 From Scholastic to Emic Comparison: Generating Comparability and
Handling Difference in Ethnographic Research 148
Estrid Sørensen, Alison Marlin and Jörg Niewöhner
vi The SAGe hAndbook of QUALITATIVe dATA CoLLeCTIon
11 Data Collection in Secondary Analysis 164
Louise Corti
12 The Virtues of Naturalistic Data 182
Jonathan Potter and Chloe Shaw
13 Performance, Hermeneutics, Interpretation 200
Norman K. Denzin
14 Quality of Data Collection 217
Rosaline S. Barbour
PARt III tyPeS OF DAtA AND HOW tO COLLeCt tHeM 231
15 Qualitative Interviews 233
Kathryn Roulston and Myungweon Choi
16 Focus Groups 250
David L. Morgan and Kim Hoffman
17 Narrative Data 264
Michael Murray
18 Data Collection in Conversation Analysis 280
Clare Jackson
19 Collecting Data for Analyzing Discourses 297
Asta Rau, Florian Elliker, and Jan K. Coetzee
20 Observations 314
David Wästerfors
21 Doing Ethnography: Ways and Reasons 327
Marie Buscatto
22 Go-Alongs 344
Margarethe Kusenbach
23 Videography 362
Hubert Knoblauch, Bernt Schnettler and René Tuma
24 Collecting Documents as Data 378
Tim Rapley and Gethin Rees
25 Collecting Images as Data 392
Thomas S. Eberle
Contents vii
26 Collecting Media Data: TV and Film Studies 412
Lothar Mikos
27 Sounds as Data 426
Michael Bull
PARt IV DIGItAL AND INteRNet DAtA 439
28 The Concept of ‘Data’ in Digital Research 441
Simon Lindgren
29 Moving Through Digital Flows: An Epistemological and Practical Approach 451
Annette N. Markham and Ane Kathrine Gammelby
30 Ethics in Digital Research 466
Katrin Tiidenberg
31 Collecting Data for Analyzing Blogs 482
Wivian Weller, Lucélia de Moraes Braga Bassalo and Nicolle Pfaff
32 Collecting Qualitative Data from Facebook: Approaches and Methods 496
Hannah Ditchfield and Joanne Meredith
33 Troubling the Concept of Data in Qualitative Digital Research 511
Annette N. Markham
PARt V tRIANGuLAtION AND MIxeD MetHODS 525
34 Triangulation in Data Collection 527
Uwe Flick
35 Toward an Understanding of a Qualitatively Driven Mixed
Methods Data Collection and Analysis: Moving Toward a
Theoretically Centered Mixed Methods Praxis 545
Sharlene Hesse-Biber
36 Data-Related Issues in Qualitatively Driven Mixed-Method Designs:
Sampling, Pacing, and Reflexivity 564
Janice M. Morse, Julianne Cheek, and Lauren Clark
37 Combining Digital and Physical Data 584
Nigel G. Fielding
38 Using Photographs in Interviews: When We Lack the Words to
Say What Practice Means 599
Karen Henwood, Fiona Shirani and Christopher Groves
viii The SAGe hAndbook of QUALITATIVe dATA CoLLeCTIon
PARt VI COLLeCtING DAtA IN SPeCIFIC POPuLAtIONS 615
39 Collecting Qualitative Data with Children 617
Colin MacDougall and Philip Darbyshire
40 Collecting Qualitative Data with Older People 632
Christine Stephens, Vanessa Burholt, and Norah Keating
41 Generating Qualitative Data with Experts and Elites 652
Alexander Bogner, Beate Littig and Wolfgang Menz
42 Collecting Qualitative Data with Hard-to-Reach Groups 668
Kerry Chamberlain and Darrin Hodgetts
Author Index 686
Subject Index 695
List of Figures
4.1 Interview protocol 56
4.2 First visual representation of theory 59
4.3 Visual representation of final theory 60
5.1 The research topic and its attributes (A) 69
5.2 The (spiral-shaped) model of ethnographic research 76
5.3 Models from Atlas.ti 7 (left) and NVivo 10 (right) 78
11.1 European qualitative archives, date started collecting data and data volume 168
11.2 Datalist for an archived study at the UK Data Service 174
11.3 Cited extract from qualitative text in the UK QualiBank 176
11.4 Header information for a qualitative interview text in the UK QualiBank 177
23.1 Comparison of ‘conventional’ and ‘focused’ ethnography
(based on Knoblauch, 2005) 364
23.2 Sketch of experimental setup/positioning the camera for a long shot
of the room 369
23.3 Street market interaction 370
23.4 Shots from two camera angles (left: speaker, right: audience) 371
23.5 Navigation experiment recorded with eyetracking camera and follower 372
23.6 The research process (from Knoblauch et al., 2015) 376
30.1 Tumblr study, research context 474
30.2 Instagram study, research context 475
34.1 Within-method triangulation 533
34.2 Areas of everyday knowledge in the episodic interview 535
34.3 Between-methods triangulation 536
34.4 Levels of triangulation in data collection 538
35.1 A theoreticaly-driven mixed methods process 550
35.2 Sequential exploratory mixed methods design 556
35.3 Vikström’s (2003, 2010) Concurrent mixed methods design 558
36.1 Sampling plan for two individual samples, pooled data for two data sets 572
36.2 One sample, one data set, and two data types 575
36.3 Schematic representation of a complex, qualitatively-driven mixed-method
study featuring integration of a core qualitative and three supplemental
quantitative components 579
38.1 Laura’s bike seats 605
38.2 Peter’s gas canister 606
38.3 Christine’s greenhouse 607
38.4 Jeremy’s greenhouse 608
38.5 Suzanna’s Barbie 609
41.1 Experts and elites 656