TY - BOOK AU - Creswell,John W. TI - Qualitative inquiry & research design: choosing among five approaches SN - 9781412995306 (pbk.) : AV - H61 .C73 2013 U1 - 300.72 CRE PY - 2013/// CY - Los Angeles, [Calif.], London PB - SAGE KW - Social sciences KW - Methodology KW - Research KW - Society KW - ukslc KW - Research methods: general KW - thema KW - Social research & statistics N1 - Previous ed.: Thousand Oaks, Calif.; London: SAGE, 2006; Record updated 3042015; Record updated 9102015; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Philosophical assumptions and interpretive frameworks -- Designing a qualitative study -- Five qualitative approaches to inquiry -- Five different qualitative studies -- Introducing and focusing the study -- Data collection -- Data analysis and representation -- Writing a qualitative study -- Standards of validation and evaluation -- Turning the story and conclusion N2 - This text compares and contrasts the five major qualitative traditions: biography, case study, ethnography, grounded theory, and phenomenology. Five actual journal articles are reproduced in the appendix as examples of the different research designs ER -