An Introduction to Qualitative Research

Uwe Flick

SAGE Publications, Mar 5, 2009 - Social Science - 504 pages

"'The Fourth Edition of Uwe Flick's Introduction to Qualitative Research remains the most comprehensive and thorough text in qualitative research. It is student-and user-friendly, thoroughly up-to-date in terms of the latest developments in the field, imminently practical. it is the single most important introductory book on qualitative inquiry in the social sciences today'
--Norman K. Denzin, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The new edition of Uwe Flick's bestselling textbook has been fully revised, expanded and updated. An Introduction to Qualitative Research guides students step-by-step through the qualitative research process.

This classic text covers all of the main theoretical approaches to qualitative research, and provides unmatched coverage of the full range of different qualitative methods and approaches now available to researchers.

A range of new features have been added to the new edition including:

" New structure to better meet the needs of teaching qualitative research

" A new chapter on Grounded Theory plus updated coverage on the full range of other qualitative methods

" A summary section discussing the state-of-the-art in qualitative research

" A glossary

" Updated cases studies, exercises and guided questions

This new edition will continue to ensure that An Introduction to Qualitative Research remains an essential introductory text for all students of qualitative research.

About the author

Uwe Flick is a professor of qualitative research at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. He is a psychologist and sociologist and holds a PhD from Freie Universität Berlin. He has been professor at Alice Salomon University (Berlin) and at University of Vienna, Austria. His main research interests include qualitative methods, access to labor market for refugees and after migration, social representations of health, vulnerability, youth homelessness, and technological change in everyday life. He edited The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Analysis (SAGE, 2014), The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Collection (SAGE, 2018), The SAGE Qualitative Research Kit (2nd ed. SAGE, 2018). He is the author of Introducing Research Methodology: A Beginner’s Guide to Doing a Research Project (2nd ed., SAGE, 2015), Designing Qualitative Research (2nd ed., SAGE, 2018), Doing Grounded Theory (SAGE, 2018), Doing Triangulation and Mixed Methods (SAGE, 2018), and, most recently, of An Introduction to Qualitative Research (6th ed., SAGE, 2018).

Bibliographic information

• Title: An Introduction to Qualitative Research; An Introduction to Qualitative Research, Uwe Flick
• Author: Uwe Flick
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, 2009
• ISBN: 1847873235, 9781847873231
• Length: 504 pages
• Subjects: Reference / Research; Social Science / Methodology; Social Science / Research