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• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Introduction: Make Yourself Comfortable
• Projects
• Chapter 1 – Qualitative Research: How Things Work
• 1.1. The Science of the Particular
• 1.2. Professional Knowledge
• 1.3. Individual Experience and Collective Knowledge
• 1.4. The Methods of Qualitative Research
• 1.5. Causes
• 1.6. The Thing
• 1.7. Comparing things
• 1.8. Weaknesses of Qualitative Research
• 1.9. Essence of the Qualitative Approach
• Chapter 2 – Interpretation: The Person as Instrument
• 2.1. Interpretive Research
• 2.2. Microinterpretation and Macrointerpretation
• 2.3. Empathy
• 2.4. Thick Description and Verstehen
• 2.5. Context and Situation
• 2.6. Skepticism
• 2.7. Emphasis on Interpretation
• Chapter 3 – Experiential Understanding: Most Qualitative Study Is Experiential
• 3.1. The Places of Human Activity
• 3.2. Criterial and Experiential Description
• 3.3. Emphasizing Personal Experience
• 3.4. Multiple Realities
• 3.5. Bringing in the experience of Others
• Chapter 4 – Stating the Problem: Questioning How This Thing Works
• 4.1. First the Question, Then the Methods
• 4.2. Laying Out Your Study
• 4.3. A Librarian Thinking of a Design
• 4.4. Design for Studying How This Case Works
• 4.5. Raising and Answering Questions
• Chapter 5 – Methods: Gathering Data
• 5.1. Observing
• 5.2. Interviewing
• 5.3. Exhibit Questions
• 5.4. Survey
• 5.5. Keeping Records
• Chapter 6 – Review of Literature: Zooming to See the Problem
• 6.1. Refining the Problem to Be Studied
• 6.2. Concept Mapping
• 6.3. Representing the Field
• 6.4. Building upon the Nearby Studies
• 6.5. Finding the Literature
• Chapter 7 – Evidence: Bolstering Judgment and Reconnoitering
• 7.1. Evidence-Based Decision Making
• 7.2. Unbearable Lightness of Evidence
• 7.3. Triangulation
• 7.4. Mixed Methods and Confidence
• 7.5. Member Checking
• 7.6. Review Panels
• 7.7. Progressive Focusing
• Chapter 8 – Analysis and Synthesis: How Things Work
• 8.1. Taking Apart and Putting Together
• 8.2. Working with Patches
• 8.3. Interpretation and Sorting
• Chapter 9 – Action Research and self-Evaluation: Finding on Your Own How Your Place Works
• 9.1. Participatory Action Research
• 9.2. Evaluation
• 9.3. Studying Your Own Place
• 9.4. Bias
• 9.5. Assertions
• Chapter 10 – Storytelling: Illustrating How Things Work
• 10.1. Vignettes
• 10.2. Elements of Story
• 10.3. Story versus a Collage of Patches
• 10.4. Multiple Case Research
• Chapter 11 – Writing the Final Report: An Iterative Convergence
• 11.1. The Iterative Synthesis
• 11.2. The Ukraine Report
• 11.3. Dualities and the Dialectic
• 11.4. Particular and General Assertions
• 11.5. Generalization from Particular Situations
• 11.6. The Professional View
• Chapter 12 – Advocacy and Ethics: Making Things Work Better
• 12.1. All Research Is Advocative
• 12.2. A Voice for the Underrepresented
• 12.3. Personal Ethics
• 12.4. Protection of Human Subjects
• 12.5. People Exposed
• 12.6. Essentials of Qualitative Research
• 12.7. Looking Forward
• Glossary: Meanings for This Book
• Bibliography
• Author Index
• Subject Index
• About the Author
• About Guilford Publications
• From the Publisher