A Guide to Qualitative Field Research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19603045 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carol Bailey (0000-0002-2734-4060, corresponding author), Carol A Bailey |
| Year | 2007 |
| Pages | 214 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | A guide to qualitative field research (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications, Inc. (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4135/9781412983204 |
| OpenAlex | W564416589 |
| Open Library | OL17547450M |
| ISBN | 9781412983204 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 85 |
About the Author Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction to Qualitative Field Research Overview History of Field Research Status Characteristics Summary Chapter Highlights Exercises 2. Ethical Issues in Qualitative Field Research Informed Consent Deception Confidentiality Institutional Review Board Chapter Highlights Exercises 3. Prelude to Qualitative Fieldwork Selecting a Research Topic Ethical Issues Practicality Accessibility The Familiar Versus the Unfamiliar Record Keeping Goals and Research Questions Review of Literature Final Preparations Chapter Highlights Exercises 4. The Infrastructure of Qualitative Field Research Paradigms Theory Traditions of Inquiry Chapter Highlights Exercises 5. Methodology Sampling Gaining Entree Arrival in the Field Key Actors Informed Consent Field Relationships Triangulation Chapter Highlights Exercises 6. Observations Planning Observations Observations of Physical Surroundings Observations of Participants Observations of Actions Ethics Summary Chapter Highlights Exercises 7. Interviews Unstructured Interviews Structured Interviews Semistructured Interviews Selecting the Appropriate Type of Interview Question Construction Framing the Interview Ethics Status Characteristics Terminating the Interview Chapter Highlights Exercises 8. Field Notes and Leaving the Field Content of Field Notes Guidelines for Writing Field Notes Leaving the Field Chapter Highlights Exercises 9. Coding, Memoing, and Descriptions Coding Strategies for Improving Coding Memoing Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Descriptions Summary Chapter Highlights Exercises 10. Typologies, Taxonomies, Visuals Representations, and Themes Typologies Taxonomies Visual Representations Themes Chapter Highlights Exercises 11. Storytelling, Critical Events, and Analytic Induction Storytelling Critical Event Analytic Induction Interpretation Chapter Highlights Exercises 12. Evaluation Criteria and Final Manuscript Evaluation Criteria Strategies for Enhancing Validity and Trustworthiness Writing the Final Manuscript Format of the Final Manuscript Conclusion Chapter Highlights Exercises References Glossary/Index
Field (mathematics) · Field research · Pure mathematics · Qualitative research · Sociology · Anthropology · Mathematics · Qualitative Research Methods and Applications · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Methodology · Research · Social sciences · Veldwerk
Data Is No Free Gift
Multi-stakeholder collaboration in community post-disaster reconstruction
Motivations, challenges, and self-transformations of farmers engaged in farm tourism on a tropical island
Reconciling Social and Biological Needs in an Endangered Ecosystem
Place-making impelled by farm tourism on a tropical island
Ethnographic performance and its flexibility in researching a traditional healing system in southern Thailand
Designing sustainable public spaces using design justice framework
Mobilizing Truth
Fighting Human Smuggling or Criminalizing Refugees? Regimes of Justification in and around R v Appulonappa
Connecting food justice to farmworkers through a faith-based organization
Māwhai
Intersectionality shapes adaptation to social-ecological change
A qualitative study of visitors to small-scale farms on a tropical Island
They know there is hope
Harvesting hardships
Transformative tourism organizations and glocalization
Africans and protected areas
Community cultural development
The Matchmaker between Employers and Older Job Seekers
Globalization, internationalization, and short-term stays abroad
Older Adults' Reasons for Using Technology while Aging in Place
Informal tourism entrepreneurs’ capital usage and conversion
La recherche qualitative
Manoeuvring the Complexities of Field Research in Africa
Shrinking Spaces, Growing Awareness Wege und Strategien aus der Ohnmacht der Feldforschung
How to evaluate the quality of an ethical deliberation? A pragmatist proposal for evaluation criteria and collaborative research
Why Are All the White Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria
“Happy Women are the Most Beautiful, but…”
Transforming rural communities through tourism development
Foreign‐educated academics
Cognitive barriers during monitoring-based commissioning of buildings
Doing urban research on ‘hard-to-reach’ populations during the Covid-19 pandemic
A Creative Alliance Between Learner Autonomy and English Language Learning
Creative Methods in Transforming Education Using Human Resources / Kūrybiniai Metodai Pertvarkant Švietimą Pasitelkus Žmogiškuosius Išteklius
Learning through Doing
Buyer-Supplier Partnerships in the Global Apparel Industry
Assigning Blame
From Community Forest Management to Polycentric Governance
Consequences of Domestic Violence against Women
Difference, dissonance, and redemption in sport heritage
The Bikerni
Buddhist gaze and power in a post-war destination
It’s just so much better than school’
Situational Awareness and Interpersonal Competence as Evaluator Competencies
Artists, government and cross-sector collaboration
Using a diagrammatic approach to reveal variations in students’ instructional representations about the five kingdoms in biology between two cultural groups
Community Stories
Posthumanism and the role of orality and literacy in language ideologies in Belize
Social workers' perception of practice with lesbians, gays and bisexuals (LGBs) in Nigeria
Youth Civic Engagement
When an Ironman Triathlon Isn’t Hard Enough
Beyond Fragments
Examining the Role of Trust and Informal Communication on Mutual Learning in Government
On home ground? Twickenham Stadium Tours and the construction of sport heritage
Rancher perceptions of and attitudes toward Mexican gray wolves
Worth the gamble? Access to information, risks and ethical dilemmas in undertaking research in authoritarian regimes
Digital Ethnography
Unburdening Stigma
Bevor Forscherinnen und Forscher die erste Frage stellen können
Irrigation projects in Ethiopia
Examining Private Landowners’ Knowledge Systems for an Invasive Species
The Impact of Gangs on Community Life in Trinidad
Community Members as Fieldwork Guides in Disaster Settings
Community-based prevention of child trafficking in Southern Ethiopia
“I've had to bury a lot of kids over the years…”
Creole prestige beyond modernism and methodological nationalism
Neither invisible nor abnormal!’ Exploring the invisibility and pathologisation of LGBT people in the Greek National Health System
Border Splurge to Deter Border Surge
Enacting Masculinities in a Contemporary Subcultural Sporting Event
Volunteering in retirement migration
Problematising the goals of study abroad in Japan
Contextual Elements of Palliative Caregiving in a Low-Income Community
The nation in bronze and granite
Spending Time Together Outside of the Clubs
What are data? Ethnographic experiences with young offenders
Research Protocol
Interviewing Elites
Qualitative Data Gathering Challenges in a Politically Unstable Rural Environment
Further Distance and Silence among Kin
If We Don't Listen to Them, We Make Them Lose More than Money
Working at the Seams of Colonial Structures
Renegotiating Identities
Knowledge and Health Beliefs About Dementia Prevention Among Chinese Older Adults
Conducting online ethnography during Covid-19
Christian women in Aceh
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| Citations per year | 4,72 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 65 |