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Résumé :
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This book moves from the past to the present, from the theorical to the specific examining the various paradigms for doing qualitative work, the strategies developed for studying people in their natural setting, and a variety of techniques for collecting, analyzing, interpreting and reporting findings. part one locates the field, starting with history, then applied qualitative research traditions, studying the "other", and the policies and the ethics of field research. part two isolates what we regard as the major historical and contemporary paradigms structuring and influencing qualitative research in human disciplines. the chapters move from competing paradigms (positivist, postpositivist, constructivist, critical theory) to specific interpretive perspectives. part three isolates the major strategies of inquiry a researcher can utilize in a concrete study. part four examines methods of collecting and analyzing empirical materials. it moves from interviewing to observation, to the use of artifacts, documents, and records from the past, to visual, personal experience, data management, computerized, narrative, content and semiotic methods of analysis. part five takes up the art of interpretation, including criteria for judjing the adequacy of qualitative materials, the interpretive process, the written text and policy research and qualitative evaluation. part six examines the future of qualitative research.
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