[Xmca-l] Re: The Science of Qualitative Research 2ed

[Huw Lloyd]

Hi Martin,

Do you define quality? And if not can you tell me why, from your
perspective, QR avoids defining it?

Thanks,
Huw

On 17 December 2017 at 01:15, Martin John Packer <mpacker@uniandes.edu.co>
wrote:

> Hi Helen,
>
> It’s not a how-to book, but rather an exploration of the roots of
> qualitative research — phenomenology, hermeneutics, critical theory - and
> an examination of the logic underlying interviews, ethnographic fieldwork,
> and analysis of interaction. That might be too theoretical for your class.
> I continue to work away at a book on how to do qualitative research, which
> I have taught many times. In case it’s useful I’ve attached the syllabus
> from the last time I taught the course in English. You’ll see I assigned
> only selected chapters from the first edition.
>
> But of course you should still buy a copy for each of your friends!  :)
>
>
> > On Dec 16, 2017, at 7:15 PM, Helena Worthen <helenaworthen@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Martin, I’ve just been given the go-head to teach a social science
> research methods class to undergraduates at Ton Duc Thang U. in Ho Chi Minh
> City, VN. This sounds like a humane book - do you think it could be used
> for undergraduates?
> >
> > The undergrads are in the Faculty of Labor Relations and Trade Unions so
> the sites of their research will be workplaces.
> >
> > H
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> > Helena Worthen
> > helenaworthen@gmail.com
> > Berkeley, CA 94707 510-828-2745
> > Blog US/ Viet Nam:
> > helenaworthen.wordpress.com
> > skype: helena.worthen1
> >
> >
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> >
> >> On Dec 16, 2017, at 2:19 PM, Martin John Packer <
> mpacker@uniandes.edu.co> wrote:
> >>
> >> Cambridge University Press, in their infinite wisdom, have just
> published an expanded second edition of my book The Science of Qualitative
> Research. It will be a perfect holiday gift for a loved one!  :)
> >>
> >> The book continues to make the case that a common view of qualitative
> research — that it amounts to a set of techniques for describing people’s
> subjective experience — is mistaken. I propose that in fact qualitative
> research can take us beyond the taken for granted ontological dualisms of
> subjectivity/objectivity, mind/world, and appearance/reality. Human beings
> have created the worlds, the cultures, in which we live, and we are
> products of these worlds. Qualitative research can be the study of the
> ‘ontological complicity’ that people have with the social reality in which
> they live, and the ‘constitution’ in which specific ways of being human are
> formed. The constituents of qualitative research — and in the book I focus
> on three: interviews, analysis of interaction, and ethnographic field work
> — can be combined and aligned to focus on ontology, in a scientific study
> of the constitution of human beings. This science is centrally a matter of
> interpretation, of hermeneutics, not of coding.
> >>
> >> The new material includes a discussion of the centrality of
> constitution (not only causation) in every scientific discipline -- think
> of Watson and Crick discovering how DNA is constituted -- in Chapter 1.
> Discussion of Bruno Latour’s work has been included in several chapters:
> there are treatments of his book Laboratory Life, of actor-network theory,
> and of his Inquiry into Modes of Existence.
> >>
> >> In addition, a new final chapter presents as an example and case study
> the research conducted by Löic Wacquant with boxers in south Chicago.
> Wacquant joined the gym, learned to box, and came to be on familiar terms
> with the men who were becoming constituted as boxers. His ethnographic
> fieldwork focused on the bodily practices of the boxing life, while his
> interviews illustrated how the boxer’s ontological complicity with this
> life builds a way of understanding the gym, and the body. Wacquant helps us
> to see the ideals and morality that are inherent in a boxer’s way of human
> being, of being human. His research illustrates the potential of
> qualitative research to enable us to recognize the diverse ways in which
> people make themselves into particular kinds of person, so we can better
> understand the ethical freedom that is key to being human. This, in my
> view, is what makes this kind of scientific investigation both exciting and
> important.
> >>
> >> CUP:
> >> <http://www.cambridge.org/co/academic/subjects/social-
> science-research-methods/qualitative-methods/science-
> qualitative-research-2nd-edition?format=HB&isbn=9781108404501>
> >>
> >> Amazon:
> >> <https://www.amazon.com/gp/search?index=books&linkCode=
> qs&keywords=9781108417129>
> >>
> >> Facebook author’s page:
> >> <https://www.facebook.com/pg/The-Science-of-Qualitative-
> Research-2e-1851273521851365/posts/?ref=page_internal>
> >>
> >> Martin
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