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Prasad, Pushkala

Crafting Qualitative Research: Beyond Positivist Traditions - 2nd ed - New York Routledge 2018 - 378p

1. Qualitative Research as Craft: Beyond positivist Traditions and Research Styles
Part 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
Part II: Traditions of Deep Structure
7. Semiotics and Structuralism: The Grammar of Social Reality
Part III: The Critical Traditions
8. Historical Materialism: Class, Conflict, and Domination
9. Critical Theory: Hegemony, Knowledge Production, and Communicative Action
10. Feminism and Gender Studies: Sex and Sexuality in the Social World
11. Structuration and Praxeology: Transcending Dualisms Within Frameworks of Power
Part 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

ISBN: 9780765641595

Dewey Class. No.: 001.42 / PRA