02068nam a22003258a 4500 CR9780511779947 UkCbUP 20180107143413.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 100519s2010||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9780511779947 (ebook) 9780521768870 (hardback) 9780521148818 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda H62 .P223 2011 001.4/2 22 Packer, Martin, author. The Science of Qualitative Research / [electronic resource] Martin Packer. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010. 1 online resource (438 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). This book is a unique examination of qualitative research in the social sciences, raising and answering the question of why we do this kind of investigation. Rather than offering advice on how to conduct qualitative research, it explores the multiple roots of qualitative research – including phenomenology, hermeneutics and critical theory – in order to diagnose the current state of play and recommend an alternative. The diagnosis is that much qualitative research today continues to employ the mind-world dualism that is typical of traditional experimental investigation. The recommendation is that we focus on constitution: the relationship of mutual formation between a form of life and its members. The basic tools of qualitative research – interviews, ethnographic fieldwork and analysis of discourse – are re-forged in order to articulate how our way of living makes us who we are, and so empower us to change this form of life. Qualitative research Print version: 9780521768870 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511779947 Cambridge Books Online 236569 236569