Questioning Qualitative Inquiry

Martyn Hammersley is an emeritus professor of educational and social research at The Open University, UK. He has carried out research in the sociology of education and the sociology of the media. However, much of his work has been concerned with the methodological issues surrounding social enquiry. He has written several books including (with Paul Atkinson) Ethnography: Principles in Practice (fourth edition, Routledge, 2019), The Dilemma of Qualitative Method (Routledge, 1989), The Politics of Social Research (SAGE, 1995), Reading Ethnographic Research (second edition, Longman, 1997), Taking Sides in Social Research (Routledge, 2000), Educational Research, Policymaking and Practice, (London, Paul Chapman/SAGE, 2002), Questioning Qualitative Inquiry (SAGE, 2008), Methodology Who Needs It? (SAGE, 2011), The Myth of Research-Based Policy and Practice (SAGE, 2013), The Limits of Social Science (SAGE, 2014), and The Concept of Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Website: http://martynhammersley.wordpress.com/

Introduction Dentists, Dadaists or Discourse Analysts? On the Failings of Qualitative Inquiry Capturing Complexity? An Examination of a Common Rationale for Qualitative Research On Thick Description Interpreting Geertz The Critical Case of Analytic Induction Assessing the Radical Critique of Interviews - with Roger Gomm Conversation Analysis and Discourse Analysis Methods or Paradigms? The Dadaist Alternative "Postmodernist" Qualitative Research Is Qualitative Research Just Rhetoric? Validity Criteria for Qualitative Research Are They Possible or even Desirable?

'Written in Hammersley's usual considered style and is pitched perfectly for post-graduate students, and teachers of advanced methods courses but alos for early career researchers still unclear of which direction they face within the contemporary landscape and proliferarting 'schools' of qualitative research' - Rob Smith, Cardiff University, for Qualitative Research 'Questioning Qualitative Inquiry is essential reading for both post-graduate student confronted by overwhelming methodological pluralism and the established scholar sitting comfortably in their ontological comfort-zone' L. da Costa & Sam Hillyard, , Durham University, for Qualitative Research 'The critiques in Hammersley's collection of essays have an even-handed rigour. Analyses of different approaches to developing knowledge about the social move between the nitty-gritty of method and exegetical discussion of philosophies behind different approaches' Anita Naoko Pilgrim University of Glamorgan for Qualitative Research