Previous edition: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

General approaches to collecting and analyzing qualitative data: Introduction -- Design methodologies, data management and analytical approaches -- Incorporating data from multiple sources : mixing methods. -- Traditional analytical approaches: Classical ethnography -- Critical ethnographic approaches -- Feminist approaches -- Grounded theory -- Phenomenology. -- Newer qualitative approaches: Postmodern influences on society and qualitative research -- Auto-ethnography -- Poetic inquiry -- Ethnodrama and performative art -- Cyber-ethnography and e-research. -- Analytic approaches for existing documentation: Structuralism and post-structuralism -- Semiotic structural and post-structural analysis (deconstruction) -- Content analysis of texts -- Content analysis of visual documentation -- Narrative analysis -- Conversation analysis -- Discourse analysis -- Data management using qualitative computer programmes: Coding -- An overview of qualitative computer programs. -- Interpreting and presenting qualitative data: Theorizing from data -- Innovative data display.