This book is the third of three paperback volumes taken from The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, Fourth Edition. It introduces the researcher to basic methods of gathering, analyzing and interpreting qualitative empirical materials. Part 1 moves from narrative inquiry, to critical arts-based inquiry, to oral history, observations, visual methodologies, and autoethnographic methods. It then takes up analysis methods, including computer-assisted methodologies, focus groups, as well as strategies for analyzing talk and text. The chapters in Part II discuss evidence, interpretive adequacy,

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Preface / Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln -- About the editors -- About the contributors -- Introduction : the discipline and practice of qualitative research / Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln -- Methods of collecting and analyzing empirical materials -- Narrative inquiry : still a field in the making / Susan E. Chase -- Critical arts-based inquiry the pedagogy and performance of a radical ethical aesthetic / Susan Finley -- Oral history / Linda Shopes -- Observations on observation : continuities and challenges / Michael Angrosino and Judith Rosenberg -- Visual methodology : towards a more seeing research / Jon D. Prosser -- Performative autoethnography : critical embodiments and possibilities / Tami Spry -- The methods, politics, and ethics of representation in online ethnography / Sarah Gaston -- Analyzing talk and text / Anssi Perkyl and Johanna Ruusuvuori -- Focus groups : contingent articulations of pedagogy, politics, and inquiry / George Kamberelis and Greg Dimitriadis -- The art and practices of interpretation, evaluation, and presentation -- Qualitative research, science and government : evidence, criteria, policy and politics / Harry Torrance -- Reflections on interpretive adequacy in qualitative research / David L. Altheide and John M. Johnson -- Analysis and representation across the continuum / Laura L. Ellingson -- Post qualitative research: the critique and the coming after / Elisabeth Adams St. Pierre -- Qualitative research and technology: in the midst of a revolution / Judith Davidson and Silvana diGregorio -- The elephant in the living room, or extending the conversation about the politics of evidence / Norman K. Denzin -- Writing into position : strategies for composition and evaluation / Ronald J. Pelias -- Evaluation as a relationally responsible practice / Tineke Abma and Guy A.M. Widdershoven -- Author index -- Subject index.