This work offers instructions on how to analyze text generated from interviews and focus groups, relating predominantly to applied qualitative studies. It covers all aspects of the qualitative data analysis process, employing a phenomenological approach which has a primary aim o…
The third edition of this entry-level textbook on qualitative research is revised and updated with a variety of changes and improvements suggested by peer review and student feedback. It retains its general tone of personal engagement and narrative illustration of key points whi…
This book is the third of three paperback volumes taken from The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, Fourth Edition. It introduces the researcher to basic methods of gathering, analyzing and interpreting qualitative empirical materials. Part 1 moves from narrative inquiry, to…
This work focuses on the task of collecting, analysing and interpreting qualitative materials using document analysis, interviews, computers and visual materials.
This text introduces the researcher to basic methods of gathering, analyzing and interpreting qualitative empirical materials. Part 1 moves from narrative inquiry, to critical arts-based inquiry, to oral history, observations, visual methodologies, and autoethnographic methods. …
An argument that qualitative representations -- symbolic representations that carve continuous phenomena into meaningful units -- are central to human cognition. In this book, Kenneth Forbus proposes that qualitative representations hold the key to one of the deepest mysteries o…
Looking beyond classical techniques, this text covers the important practical applications of planning, such as model checking and game playing. It demonstrates the need for effective planning applications in areas as diverse as military operations, control of space vehicles and…
