We still lack practical answers to one of the most basic questions in empirical research:How should researchers interpret meanings? The contributors take seriously the goals of both post-modernist and positivist researchers, as they offer detailed guidance on how to apply specific tools of analysis and how to circumvent their inherent limitations. INDICE: Introduction; A.Klotz - PART I: RESEARCH DESIGN - Thinking Tools; A.Leander - Feminist Methodological Reflection; B.Ackerly - Case Selection; A.Klotz - PART II: CLASSIC QUALITATIVE TOOLS - Discourse Analysis; I.B.Neumann -Historical Representations; K.C.Dunn - Ethnographic Research; H.Gusterson - Process Tracing; J.T.Checkel - PART III: BOUNDARY CROSSING TECHNIQUES - Political Personality Profiling; J.M.Post - Content Analysis; M.G.Hermann - PragmaticAnalysis; G.Duffy - Agent Based Modeling; M.J.Hoffmann - PART IV: IMPLICATIONS - 'Qualitative' Methods?; S.Barkin - Practicing Pluralism; D.Prakash
- ISBN: 978-0-230-24175-6
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 19/11/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés