Crafting qualitative research working in the postpositivist traditions - Prasad, Pushkala (Armonk, N.Y. M.E. Sharpe, 2005)
Acknowledgments --
1. Qualitative Research as Craft: Postpositivist Traditions and Research Styles --
I. The Interpretive Traditions: --
2. Symbolic Interactionism: Searching for Self and Meaning --
3. Hermeneutics: The Interpretation of Texts --
4. Dramaturgy and Dramatism: Social Life as Theater and Stage --
5. Ethnomethodology: The Accomplishment of Ordinary Lives --
6. Ethnography: Cultural Understandings of Natives --
II. Traditions of Deep Structure: --
7. Semiotics and Structuralism: The Grammar of Social Reality --
III. The Critical Traditions: --
8. Historical Materialism: Class, Conflict, and Domination --
9. Critical Theory: Hegemony, Knowledge Production, and Communicative Action --
10. Feminism: Gender as the Core Social Principle --
11. Structuration and Praxeology: Transcending Dualisms Within Frameworks of Power --
IV. Traditions of the "Post": --
12. Postmodernism: Playing with Images and the "Truth" --
13. Poststructuralism: Discourse, Discipline, and Deconstruction --
14. Postcolonialism: Unpacking and Resisting Imperialism --
15. Conclusion: Tradition, Improvisation, and Quality Control
Keywords: Qualitative research; Qualitative research -- Methodology