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JOHN VANMAANEN Massachusetts Institute of Technology Associate Editors: Peter K. Manning, Northeastern University & Marc L. Miller, University of Washington Other volumes in this series listed on outside back cover 1. RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH KIRK I MILLER 2. SPEAKING OF ETHNOGRAPHY AGAR 3. THE POLITICS AND ETHICS OF FIELDWORK PUNCH 4. LINKING DATA FIELDING I FIELDING S. THE CLINICAL PERSPECTIVE IN FIELDWORK SCHEIN 6. MEMBERSHIP ROLES IN FIELD RESEARCH ADLER I ADLER 7. SEMIOTICS AND FIELDWORK MANNING 8. ANALYZING FIELD REALITY GUBRIUM 9. GENDER ISSUES IN FIELD RESEARCH WARREN 10. SYSTEMATIC DATA COLLECTION WELLER I ROMNEY II. META-ETHNOGRAPHY: SYNTHESIZING QUALITATIVE STUDIES NOBLIT I HARE 12. F.THNOSTATISTICS: QUALITATIVE FOUNDATIONS FOR QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH GEPHART 13. THE LONG INTERVIEW MCCRACKEN 14. MICROCOMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH PFAFFENBERGER IS. KNOWING CHILDREN: PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION WITH MINORS FINE I SANDSTROM 16. FOCUS GROUPS AS QUALITATIVE RESEARCH ' (SECOND EDITION) MORGAN 17. INTERPRETIVE BIOGRAPHY DENZIN 18. PSYCHOANALYTIC ASPECTS OF FIELDWORK HUNT 19. ETHNOGRAPHIC DECISION TREE MODELING GLADWIN 20. WRITING UP QUALITATIVE RESEARCH WOLCOTT 21. WRITING STRATEGIES: REACHING DIVERSE AUDIENCES RICHARDSON 22. SELECTING ETHNOGRAPHIC INFORMANTS JOHNSON 23. LIVING THE ETHNOGRAPHIC LIFE ROSE 24. ANALYZING VISUAL DATA BALL/SMITH 25. UNDERSTANDING ETHNOGRAPHIC TEXTS ATKINSON
26. DOING CRITICAL ETHNOGRAPHY THOMAS 27. ETHNOGRAPHY IN ORGANIZATIONS SCHWARTZMAN 28. EMOTIONS AND FIELDWORK KLEINMAN I COPP 29. SECRECY AND FIELDWORK MITCHELL 30. NARRATIVE ANALYSIS RIESSMAN 31. ARCHIVAL STRATEGIES AND TECHNIQUES HILL 32. CASE STUDY METHODS HAMEL I DUFOUR I FORTIN 33. STRATEGIES FOR INTERPRETING QUALITAT DATA FELDMAN 34. DANGEROUS FIELDWORK LEE 35. CONVERSATION ANALYSIS PSATHAS 36. ETHNOMETHOOOLOGY COULON 37. THE ACTIVE INTERVIEW HOLSTEIN I GUBRIUM 38. QUALITATIVE MEDIA ANALYSIS ALTHEIDE 39. STUDYING ORGANIZATIONAL SYMBOLISM JONES 40. INSIDER/OUTSIDER TEAM RESEARCH BARTUNEK I LOUIS 41. WORKING WITH SENSITIZING CONCEPTS VAN DEN HOONAARD 42. DOING TEAM ETHNOGRAPHY ERICKSON I STULL 43. A NARRATIVE APPROACH TO ORGANIZATIO STUDIES CZARNIAWSKA 44. THE LIFE STORY INTERVIEW ATKINSON 45. EMPLOYING QUALITATIVE METHODS IN TH PRIVATE SECTOR MITCHELL 46. THE ETHNOGRAPHER'S METHOD STEWART 47. CONDUCTING INTERPRETIVE POLICY ANAL YANOW 48. EXPLORATORY RESEARCH IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES STEBBINS 49. SYSTEMATIC SELF-OBSERVATION RODRIGUEZ SO. DISCOURSE ANALYSIS PHILLIPS 51. FEMINIST FIELDWORK ANALYSIS KLEINMAN 52. PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH MCINTYRE
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Mcintyre, Alice, 1956Participatory action research I Alice Mcintyre. p. em.- (Qualitative research methods; 52) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4129-5366-5 (pbk.) 1. Social sciences-Research. 2. Action research. 3. Communities-Research. 4. Social participation. 5. Group problem solving. I. Title. H62.M3363 2008 300. 72--
