The SAGE handbook of qualitative research in psychology

665 Pages·2008·7.97 MB·English

by  Carla Willig

The SAGE Handbook of
Qualitative
Research in Psychology
EditorialAdvisoryBoard
PeterBanister(ManchesterMetropolitanUniversity,UK)
MichaelBillig(LoughboroughUniversity,UK)
UweFlick(AliceSalomonUniversityofAppliedSciences,Berlin,Germany)
RomHarré(GeorgetownUniversity,USA)
SteinarKvale(UniversityofAarhus,Denmark)
CatrionaMacleod(RhodesUniversity,SouthAfrica)
DavidMarks(CityUniversity,London,UK)
PaulaNicolson(UniversityofLondon,UK)
JonathanA.Smith(UniversityofLondon)
HankStam(UniversityofCalgary,Canada)
PaulStenner(UniversityofBrighton,UK)
JaneUssher(UniversityofWesternSydney,Australia)
MargaretWetherell(OpenUniversity,UK)
LucyYardley(SouthamptonUniversity,UK)
The SAGE Handbook of
Qualitative
Research in Psychology

Edited by
Carla Willig and Wendy Stainton-Rogers
EditorialarrangementandChapters1and33©CarlaWilligandWendy Chapter18©AlisonEvans,JonathanElford&DickWiggins2008
Stainton-Rogers2008 Chapter19©ChristinaSilver&NigelFielding2008
Chapter2©ChristineGriffin&AndrewBengry-Howell2008 Chapter20©LucyYardley&FelicityBishop2008
Chapter3©CarolynKagan,MarkBurton&AsiyaSiddiquee2008 Chapter21©StevenD.Brown&AbigailLocke2008
Chapter4©SueWilkinson&CeliaKitzinger2008 Chapter22©KerryChamberlain&MichaelMurray2008
Chapter5©SallyWiggins&JonathanPotter2008 Chapter23©EricaBurman2008
Chapter6©MichaelArribas-Ayllon&ValerieWalkerdine2008 Chapter24©DavidHarper2008
Chapter7©StephenFrosh&LisaSavilleYoung2008 Chapter25©JosephG.Ponterotto,GeenaKuriakose&Yevgeniya
Chapter8©NiamhStephenson&SusanKippax2008 Granovskaya2008
Chapter9©DavidHiles&IvoCˇermák2008 Chapter26©AndyMiller,TomBillington,VictoriaLewis&
Chapter10©AmedeoP.Giorgi&BarbroGiorgi2008 LisaDeSouza2008
Chapter11©VirginiaEatough&JonathanA.Smith2008 Chapter27©JoSilvester2008
Chapter12©UweFlick&JulietFoster2008 Chapter28©PeterBanister2008
Chapter13©PaulStenner,SimonWatts&MarciaWorrell2008 Chapter29©CarrieE.Hanlin,KimberlyBess,PatriciaConway,Scotney
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Chapter16©MaryGergen2008 Chapter31©ThomasC.Ormerod&LindenJ.Ball2008
Chapter17©PaulaReavey&KatherineJohnson2008 Chapter32©CatrionaMacleod&SunilBhatia2008
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Acknowledgements
You do not take on a task like editing a handbook without a degree of trepidation. For both
of us this has been an initiation, and we started off a bit in awe of what we had to achieve.
To our surprise and great delight, it has turned out not to be awful at all but immensely
satisfyingandrewarding.Wehavebothlearnedagreatdealandenrichedourownknowledge
and understanding of qualitative research in psychology, at a time when this field of work is
really‘movingandshaking’.
So when we thought about our acknowledgements we decided that the people we most
wanttothankarethosewhohavemadethehandbookpossible–themembersofourEditorial
AdvisoryBoardand,mostofall,ourauthors.Itistheywhohavebeentrulyawesome!Ofcourse
it has not been all ‘plain sailing’, but almost always we have met with abundant generosity
inthetimeandeffortthatpeoplehavedevoted,andbeentreatedwithgreatpatienceandwith
unstintinggoodwillinournegotiationsandthevariousdemandswehavemade.
Most of all, we would sincerely like to thank our ‘awesome authors’ for the way they
workedwithusinatruespiritofopenness–toideas(somemoreoffthewallthanothers);to
suggestions (which often involved much effort); to requests (more often than not, pretty ‘big

asks’); and especially to a deluge of peer critique (which was always challenging but seldom
takenasanythingotherthanconstructive).Wehavealsoappreciatedthewaymoreexperienced
authorshaveworkedsogallantlyandeffectivelywiththoselessexperienced(andthepatience
withwhichthemoreorganizedhavehandledthemorepreoccupied).Thankyouallformaking
thetaskofeditingthehandbooksuchagratifyingexperience,andformakingitsuchadamn’
finebook.

Contents
Acknowledgements vii
NotesonContributors xii
1 Introduction 1
CarlaWilligandWendyStainton-Rogers
SECTIONI METHODS 13
2 Ethnography 15
ChristineGriffinandAndrewBengry-Howell
3 ActionResearch 32
CarolynKagan,MarkBurtonandAsiyaSiddiquee
4 ConversationAnalysis 54
SueWilkinsonandCeliaKitzinger
5 DiscursivePsychology 73
SallyWigginsandJonathanPotter
6 FoucauldianDiscourseAnalysis 91
MichaelArribas-AyllonandValerieWalkerdine
7 PsychoanalyticApproachestoQualitativePsychology 109
StephenFroshandLisaSavilleYoung
8 MemoryWork 127
NiamhStephensonandSusanKippax
9 NarrativePsychology 147
DavidHilesandIvoCˇermák
10 PhenomenologicalPsychology 165
AmedeoP.GiorgiandBarbroGiorgi
11 InterpretativePhenomenologicalAnalysis 179
VirginiaEatoughandJonathanA.Smith