Qualitative Literacy
A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research
Mario Luis Small author Jessica McCrory Calarco author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of California Press
Published:11th Oct '22
Should be back in stock very soon
Suppose you were given two qualitative studies: one is a piece of empirically sound social science and the other, though interesting and beautifully written, is not. How would you tell the difference? Qualitative Literacy presents criteria to assess qualitative research methods such as in-depth interviewing and participant observation. Qualitative research is indispensable to the study of inequality, poverty, education, public health, immigration, the family, and criminal justice. Each of the hundreds of ethnographic and interview studies published yearly on these issues is scientifically either sound or unsound. This guide provides social scientists, researchers, students, evaluators, policy makers, and journalists with the tools needed to identify and evaluate quality in field research.
"This book is a must-read for any researcher, even those who specialize in quantitative methods. . . .It aims to be a textbook but achieves much more." * EPIC - Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Community *
"Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research is a wonderful book that should be required reading for all graduate students in Sociology; indeed, it is a useful guide for any social science discipline that incorporates both quantitative and qualitative training." * Social Forces *
"Qualitative Literacy… suggests a template through which scholars—building on extensive prior methodological research—might more holistically and collectively develop a framework to improve qualitative literacy across the social sciences."
* Administrative Science Quarterly *
ISBN: 9780520390669
Dimensions: 210mm x 140mm x 18mm
Weight: 272g
230 pages