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• Contents
• List of boxes
• Box 1 – Naturalistic inquiry: art, craft, or recipe?
• Box 2 – The Heider-Simmel experiment
• Box 3 – Positivism and interpretivism as academic social facts
• Box 4 – The problem of terminology
• Box 5 – Grounded theory in practice: A didactic case study
• Box 6 – The case of Senegalese boat migrants
• Box 7 – Observation broadly defined
• Box 8 – Observational categories for the study of primates
• Box 9 – The student, the fish, and Agassiz
• Box 10 – Applying Merton and Kendall’s four criteria
• Box 11 – Mass observation in Great Britain
• Box 12 – Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller
• Box 13 – An example of naturalistic social network analysis
• Box 14 – Coding example: The lady in red
• Box 15 – The use of coding software
• List of figures
• Figure 1 – The arc of naturalistic inquiry
• Figure 2 – Place of naturalistic inquiry in social research
• Figure 3 – Description, interpretation, and explanation
• Figure 4 – A still from the Heider-Simmel experiment
• Figure 5 – Definitions of the situation and social facts
• Figure 6 – Observation in social research
• Figure 7 – Textual levels within field notes
• Figure 8 – Domains and stages in a life course and focus of interviewer
• Figure 9 – Non-fiction image: young child at work
• Figure 10 – Still from Yasujiro Ozu, Tokyo Story
• Figure 11 – Example of a simple social network
• Figure 12 – Thin description, thick description, and theory writing
• Figure 13 – The arc of naturalistic inquiry, with hermeneutic steps
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: The arc of naturalistic inquiry
• Naturalistic inquiry and qualitative research
• Genesis and audience of the book
• Outline
• 1. On naturalistic inquiry: Key issues and practices
• 1.1. Positivism and interpretivism: Auguste Comte versus Max Weber
• 1.2. Describing, understanding, and explaining
• 1.3. Definitions of situations and social facts
• 1.4. Positivist and naturalistic designs
• 1.5. Qualitative versus quantitative methods?
• 1.6. Validity and reliability in naturalistic inquiry
• 2. Theorizing society: Grounded theory in naturalistic inquiry
• 2.1. Dissatisfaction with structural functionalism and grand theory
• 2.2. The intellectual pedigree of symbolic interactionism
• 2.3. Grounded theory in naturalistic inquiry: The problem of generalization and inference
• 2.4. Conclusion
• 3. Looking at society: Observing, participating, interpreting
• 3.1. Enlightenment roots
• 3.2. Observations in social research: Positivism and naturalistic inquiry
• 3.3. Naturalistic observations: Looking at everyday life
• 3.4. The observer as participant
• 3.5. Practical methodology in looking at society
• 3.6. Conclusion
• 4. Talking about society: Interviewing and casual conversation
• 4.1. From workers’ inquiry to social survey
• 4.2. The open interview
• 4.3. The life history interview
• 4.4. The creative or active interview
• 4.5. Practical methodology in interviewing
• 4.6. Conclusion: Casual conversation
• 5. Reading society: Texts, images, things
• 5.1. Texts
• 5.2. Images: Drawings, paintings, maps, photographs, film
• 5.3. Things
• 5.4. Practical methodology in reading society
• 5.5. Conclusion
• 6. Disentangling society: The analysis of social networks
• 6.1. The analysis and theory of social networks
• 6.2. A note on key thinkers: Roles, sociogenesis, and transactions
• 6.3. Applications of social network analysis in naturalistic inquiry
• 6.4. Practical methodology in disentangling society
• 6.5. Conclusion
• 7. Not getting lost in society: On qualitative analysis
• 7.1. Text and interpretation
• 7.2. Practical methodology: Qualitative analysis in six steps
• 7.3. Conclusion
• 8. Telling about society: On writing
• 8.1. Thick description and social theory
• 8.2. Writing as Verstehen
• 8.3. Contested issues: The ‘I’, literary technique, composite cases
• 8.4. Practical methodology in telling about society
• 8.5. Conclusion
• Epilogue: Present and future of naturalistic inquiry
• Naturalistic inquiry in social research
• Accountability in naturalistic inquiry
• The future
• References
• Index of names
• Index of subjects