What Is Qualitative Research?
PART ONE: THE INTERPRETIVE TRADITION
Addressing `Lived Experience¿
Symbolic Interactionism and Ethnography
Varieties of Symbolic Interactionism
Grounded Theory and Dramaturgical Analysis
Investigating Practices
Ethnomethodological Ethnography
Researching Language
Conversation Analysis
PART TWO: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES
From Description to Critique
Feminism and Qualitative Research
Postmodern Ethnography
PART THREE: CONCLUSION
The Craft of Qualitative Research

Max Travers is a reader in Sociology at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, where he has been since 1992. Before that he lectured at Plymouth University. He has an MA in History, an MA in Economics and a PhD in Sociology. He is also a Solicitor of the Supreme Court.

Qualitative Research Through Case Studies provides an accessible introduction to a wide range of approaches that deal with the theoretical analysis of qualitative data.