The Landscape of Qualitative Research
- Norman K. Denzin - University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, USA
- Yvonna S. Lincoln - Texas A&M University, USA
The Landscape of Qualitative Research, Fourth Edition aims to put the field of qualitative research in context. It offers background on the field, starting with history, then action research and the academy, and the politics and ethics of qualitative research. It then isolates what we regard as the major historical and contemporary paradigms now structuring and influencing qualitative research in the human disciplines. The chapters move from competing paradigms (positivist, postpositivist, constructivist, critical theory) to specific interpretive perspectives, feminisms, racialized discourses, cultural studies, sexualities, and queer theory. It concludes with consideration for the future of qualitative research.
This classic text is a standard resources for all masters and doctoral students doing empirical research. I make a display copy available at all our doctoral seminars.
This book is a particularly helpful resource for masters and doctoral level students. It offers a range of perspectives and insights. Certainly, as an integral part of the trio of works in this series by Denzin and Lincoln, the text offers a highly comprehensive contribution to qualitative learning, teaching and research practice.
perhaps fall 2014
Great work but too advanced for this student group
Highly recommend to students as a set of 3 texts . This text supports the student and acdemics understanding of qualitative research
A very good textbook to introduce qualitative methods to post-grad students. Good examples of qualitative methods and I would recommend to students the chapter on alternate paradigms inquiry.
This is a classic text which we have been using for some time
This and its fellow companion volumes are undoubtedly classics in the field. They are recommended in our professional doctorates programme because of the broad swathe of research methods covered. They are excellent.
A good book but only for those at the higher level of comprehension. Some extremely interesting sections.
Interesting book but probably at higher level than our students would need.