A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Qualitative Research by David Silverman

A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Qualitative Research by David Silverman

Writing in an informal and accessible style, David Silverman offers the reader an entry into the broader issues of qualitative research that many textbooks gloss over - the underlying arguments of qualitative research and the key debates about its future direction.

′This text book lives up to its titleSteering clear of the formulaic approach taken by textbooks, Silverman seeks to challenge some underlying assumptions about the nature of qualitative research....This book comes highly recommended, both for those interested in qualitative research, as well as students who like a challenge
Carole Murphy
Network

`Clear and incisive, this valuable text needs to be on every qualitative researcher’s bookshelf. What could be handier? I recommend it to anyone in the trade for its seasoned good sense and advice
Jay Gibrium
University of Missouri

`David Silverman has drawn on his enormous experience in writing, teaching and using qualitative research methods to produce a book that lays bare key dilemmas and confronts questions that qualitative researchers often avoid
Jonathan Potter
Loughborough University

The main strength of this book is its clarity to raise awareness of the implications for carrying out qualitative research. For ungergraduates I would consider this to be an important supplimentary text to have at hand...For expereinced student researchers this is an excellent text to help you raise interesting and searching questions to realise new avenues that could be followed in your qualitative research
Simon Kawycz
Journal of Qualitative Research in Sports Studies

David Silverman trained as a sociologist at the London School of Economics and the University of California, Los Angeles. He taught for 32 years at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is interested in conversation and discourse analysis and he has researched medical consultations and HIV-test counselling. He is the author of Interpreting Qualitative Data (Seventh Edition, 2024) and A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Qualitative Research (Second Edition, 2013). He is also the editor of Qualitative Research (Sixth Edition, 2026) and the Sage series, Introducing Qualitative Methods. In recent years, he has offered short, hands-on workshops in qualitative research for research students and faculty at universities in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. Now retired from full-time work, David aims to watch one hundred days of cricket a year. He also enjoys voluntary work in an old people’s home where he sings with residents with dementia and strokes.

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ISBN 13	9781412945967
ISBN 10	1412945968
Title	A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Qualitative Research
Author	David Silverman
Series	Very Short Fairly Interesting And Cheap Bks
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	SAGE Publications Inc
Year published	2007-08-08
Number of pages	168
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