Previous ed.: 2001.

Qualitative and quantitative -- Managing subjectivity -- Schools and approaches -- Writer as stranger -- Researching everyday life -- Determining the area -- Establishing a research question -- Defining the research setting -- Conceptual framework -- Explaining procedures -- Significance of research strategy -- Articulating issues -- What counts as data -- Overview of qualitative data -- Arising from social settings -- Thick description -- Approaching thick description -- Making the familiar strange -- Writing about data -- From data to written study -- Organizing and presenting data -- Embedding data in the argument -- Keeping things separate -- Writer voice -- The struggle with convention -- New thinking -- The author writes back -- Creating coherence -- Achieving credibility -- Writing about Relations -- Reflexivity -- The culture of dealing -- Setting up relations -- Establishing relations -- Behaving appropriately -- Using experience as data -- Disciplined learning -- Making appropriate claims -- Allowing 'ordinary' voice -- Cautious detachment -- Suspending judgement -- People in relationships -- Questions for discussion -- Written studies used as examples.