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Qualitative methodologies and the different paradigms which guide them can be seen as both an alternative and complementary approach to quantification and positivism in social, personality, developmental, health, clinical, couselling, community and school psychology. Qualitative methodology seen as an alternative approach seeks to answer questions that cannot be answered through quantification, random sampling, probability testing and other measures, which seek to control the environment of the participant. Viewed as a complementary approach to research, qualitative methodology can be utilized alongside quantitative methods, bringing a new depth and richness to data analysis. The variety of innovative techniques and theoretical perspectives offered in this volume should challenge readers to think about and expand on their understanding of qualitative research and its continually emerging applications.

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• Contributors(p. vii)
• Foreword(p. ix)
• Preface(p. xiii)
• Part I. Ways of Looking at the World: Epistemological Issues in Qualitative Research(p. 1)
• 1. Naming the Stars: Integrating Qualitative Methods Into Psychological Research(p. 3)
• 2. On the Art and Science of Qualitative Research in Psychology(p. 17)
• 3. Methodology Makes Meaning: How Both Qualitative and Quantitative Paradigms Shape Evidence and Its Interpretation(p. 31)
• 4. Dancing Through Minefields: Toward a Qualitative Stance in Psychology(p. 49)
• Part II. Methodologies for Qualitative Researchers in Psychology: The Nuts, the Bolts, and the Finished Product(p. 71)
• 5. Discourse Analysis and Discursive Psychology(p. 73)
• 6. Narrative Psychology and Narrative Analysis(p. 95)
• 7. Video Methods in Qualitative Research(p. 113)
• 8. Grounded Theory in Psychological Research(p. 131)
• 9. On the Listening Guide: A Voice-Centered Relational Model(p. 157)
• 10. Participatory Action Research: From Within and Beyond Prison Bars(p. 173)
• 11. Balancing the Whole: Portraiture as Methodology(p. 199)
• 12. Ethnographic Methods: Applications From Developmental Cultural Psychology(p. 219)
• 13. The Descriptive Phenomenological Psychological Method(p. 243)
• 14. The Psychoanalytical Interview as Inspiration for Qualitative Research(p. 275)
• Author Index(p. 299)
• Subject Index(p. 307)
• About the Editors(p. 315)

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In the last seven or so years, dozens of books on qualitative research have been published in the social sciences, but only now are such works being published by psychologists. This early entry is solid. Part 1 comprises four chapters on epistemology--philosophies and theories of knowledge and understanding, in this case going beyond the still prevailing assumptions of positivism. Reading all four chapters provides an excellent overview of scientific issues. Each author writes from a somewhat different perspective, in effect nuancing and deepening themes from other chapters. Part 2 includes ten chapters on specific methods--many well established, some newer variations. Most chapters include historical and epistemological contexts. The methods, all applied to psychological material, are discourse analysis, narrative analysis, video methods, grounded theory, the listening guide, participatory-action research, portraiture, ethnography, and descriptive phenomenology. The closing chapter looks at the psychoanalytic interview as inspiration, historical and contemporary, for qualitative research. Most of these chapters include illustrations of data and analysis, but none is merely technical. The entire volume is well edited and well written. All authors are experienced qualitative researchers. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. C. T. Fischer Duquesne University