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Written in Johnny Salda�a's elegant and accessible style, Thinking Qualitatively: Methods of Mind boldly pursues the challenge of teaching students not just how to collect and analyze data, but how to actively think about them. Each chapter presents one “method of mind” (thinking analytically, realistically, symbolically, ethically, multidisciplinarily, artistically, summarily, interpretively, and narratively), together with applications, a vignette or story related to the thinking modality, points to remember, and exercises. Designed to help researchers “rise above the data,” the book explores how qualitative research designs, data collection, data analyses, and write-ups can be enriched through over 60 different lenses, filters, and angles on social life. Venturing into more evocative and multidimensional ways to examine the complex patterns of daily living, the book reveals how the researcher's mind thinks heuristically to transcend the descriptive and develop "highdeep" insights about the human condition.
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“This is a book for all qualitative methodologists. Not just a ‘how-to’ manual but an epistemological exercise in understanding qualitative methods.”� —Cassie F. Quigley, Clemson University
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“This book fills an important void in the field. The market is crowded with books on techniques and strategies for conducting qualitative research. Salda�a’s volume provides a vital complement by encouraging students to develop the core analytical skills and interpretive frames they need to be truly successful in their research endeavors. He helps students flex and hone the epistemological muscles that are at the center of capable qualitative research.”� —John P. Bartkowski, University of Texas at San Antonio
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“The focus of the book is clear and consistent. The writing is superb. It deals with sophisticated ideas in a clear and highly communicative style. It weaves important and relevant scholarship in ways that help the reader grasp the key ideas. It’s one of the best books I have read.” �—Liora Bresler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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“Thinking Qualitatively invites students to think before they act and offers a rich set of options for qualitative researchers to consider.”� —Michael Brown, University of Wyoming
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“This book brings together key ways of thinking about our work as qualitative researchers. In many ways, it captures the breadth and depth of our work, while calling for us to be ever reflexive about our practices. I see this book as positively informing the work of novice and experienced researchers. It is a much needed addition to the qualitative research community.”�� —Jessica Nina Lester, Indiana University
- Sales Rank: #179037 in Books
- Published on: 2014-09-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.99" h x .55" w x 7.38" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 240 pages
Review
"This is book for all qualitative methodologists.� Not just a “how-to” manual but an epistemological exercise in understanding qualitative methods."
(Cassie F. Quigley, Clemson University)
"This book fills an important void in the field. The market is crowded with books on techniques and strategies for conducting qualitative research. Salda�a’s volume provides a vital complement by encouraging students to develop the core analytical skills and interpretive frames they need to be truly successful in their research endeavors. He helps students flex and hone the epistemological muscles that are at the center of capable qualitative research."
(John P. Bartkowski, University of Texas at San Antonio)
"The focus of the book is clear and consistent. The writing is superb. It deals with sophisticated ideas in a clear and highly communicative style. It weaves important and relevant scholarship in ways that help the reader grasp the key ideas. �It’s one of the best books I have read (and I have read hundreds…). I will recommend it to all my doctoral advisees, as well as to the students in my classes."
(Liora Bresler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
"Thinking Qualitatively invites students to think before they act, and offers a rich set of options for qualitative researchers to consider."
(Michael Brown, University of Wyoming)
"This book� brings� together� key� ways� of� thinking� about� our� work� as� qualitative� researchers.� In� many� ways,� it� captures� the� breadth� and� depth� of� our� work,� while� calling� for� us� to� be� ever� reflexive� about� our� practices.� I� see� this� book� as� positively� informing� the� work� of� novice� and� experienced� researchers.� It� is� a� much� needed� addition� to� the� qualitative� research� community." (Jessica Nina Lester, Indiana University)
About the Author
Johnny Salda�a is Professor Emeritus of Theatre from the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts’ School of Film, Dance, and Theatre at Arizona State University. He has been involved in the field of theatre as a teacher educator, director, playwright, and qualitative researcher.�Salda�a’s research methods have been used and cited internationally for studies in K-12 and higher education, the fine arts, business, technology, social sciences, government, social services, communication, human development, sport, health care, and medicine. He is the author of Longitudinal Qualitative Research: Analyzing Change Through Time (AltaMira Press, 2003), recipient of the 2004 Outstanding Book Award from the National Communication Association’s Ethnography Division; Ethnodrama: An Anthology of Reality Theatre (AltaMira Press, 2005), an edited collection of ethnographic-based plays; The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers (Sage Publications, 2009; second edition, 2013), a handbook on qualitative data analysis; Fundamentals of Qualitative Research (Oxford University Press, 2011), a commissioned introductory textbook and volume one of the Understanding Qualitative Research series; Ethnotheatre: Research from Page to Stage (Left Coast Press, 2011), a playwriting primer for performance ethnography and recipient of the American Educational Research Association’s Qualitative Research Special Interest Group’s 2012 Outstanding Book Award; and Qualitative Data Analysis: A Methods Sourcebook, third edition (Sage Publications, 2014), a commissioned update and revision of the late Matthew B. Miles and A. Michael Huberman’s second edition (1994) book, Qualitative Data Analysis: An Expanded Sourcebook.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Awesome qualitativeness Saldana rules.
By D. Verret
I love this book. I wish I had stumbled upon it earlier. I bought both the hard copy and the ebook. Highly recommend for anyone doing qualitative studies.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
... book about how you can think to be a better researcher so that you can do qualitative studies
By Tahi
This is a very general book about how you can think to be a better researcher so that you can do qualitative studies. I highly recommend this to others. I give it 4 stars because some information in it was too general for me. Then again it is not meant to be a specific road-map.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Stay away - there's so much better out there.
By P.Q.
This book's approach to qualitative research is mediocre at best. What is far more concerning than Saldana's methodological recommendations, however, is his presentation. Allow me to elaborate.
First of all, Saldana frames qualitative research in an overly cognitivist manner. He constantly resorts to the language of "mental patterns," and "ways your mind works," placing a strong emphasis on the idea that learning qualitative research methods requires you to remake your mental works. Even as he cites numerous incidental sources from neuroscience--few if any of which are germane to the points he is making about qualitative research itself--his choice of words and his glib tone take the book in the direction of the pseudo-science of "life-hacking" more than scholarship. One does not need to know "how your brain works" in order to talk, in order to analyze the world around us, and so on; so the priority given to pop-neuroscience language seems to be a distraction at best, and at worst a smokescreen for thinly-developed material.
That should be enough to steer you away to another introduction to qualitative inquiry. However, there are a number of other incidental issues which also trouble the book. First, in chapter 1 Saldana presents a highly simplified, deterministic view of how a person's social position influences (or, as he seems to suggest, equates to) their worldview. I am fully aware that there is a relationship between one's positionality and one's voice--this was the substance of one of the first major interventions by feminist scholars, such that the idea is often presumed commonsense in the academy today. Unfortunately, the feminist critique of the so-called "master subject" (Haraway's term) is not so well-known that scholars today can simply dash off a terrible representation of it *in a textbook for new academics,* who may not be exposed to any more rigorous formulation in subsequent coursework. Furthermore, Saldana implies that by openly acknowledging one's positionality one can earn the trust of readers, by showing that the researcher has thought through "all" the ethical considerations regarding representation of others. This makes me want to cry. It is ludicrous to suggest that we can fully and transparently know how our own person affects the way that we write our scholarship. It is equally ludicrous to suggest that by disclosing our positionality our readers will be able to perfectly calibrate and see through our distorted lens to some objective Truth; or that we even *deserve* a reader's trust just because we talk about growing up privileged or homeless or white or brown or whatever. The issue at hand is not how to recover scholarship's lost sense of transparency--but rather to see that all knowledge of the world is tied to subjects who themselves are in the world. I could go on, but it's not necessary--suffice to say, Saldana presents a crude approximation of the feminist critique of knowledge production, a critique which he owes a great debt to, given how subsequent changes in the academy have valorized qualitative research against a hard-lined quantitative approach to social science.
The overall tone of the book is fairly casual, even conversational--which in and of itself is not problematic, except that Saldana often lapses into an editorial voice. For example, in chapter 7, he presents *without any citations* a thin summary of "embodied" research and research methodologies that prioritize the body. These he dismisses out of hand (as more an "obsession" or a "fixation" than a "lens," one of his favorite terms), without presenting any evidence that he has engaged with this scholarship at any depth. Since when is the act of writing a textbook the moment to pronounce one's opinions on other scholars, not least on entire subfields of work?
Ah, but wait, there's more. Since when is the writing of a textbook an opportunity to air one's misogynistic tendencies? Later in the same chapter, he suggests that one way of "thinking cinematically" is to reflect on what cinematic character you might most identify with. He then cites Hannibal of "Silence of the Lambs"--yes, seriously--and then claims that, for him, Hannibal's most salient personal characteristic is his "high-powered perception," his cool analytical approach, rather than *the fact that he was a serial killer of women.* Where is his editor to tell him that this is inappropriate? Where are his friends who read the manuscript? I can name fifty different leading actor roles from major motion pictures who have high-powered perception who *are not serial killers of women.* This is deeply inappropriate and perhaps unfortunately revealing.
I could go on, but I hope at this point I don't need to. PLEASE find a different book to learn qualitative methods from.
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