The Qualitative Inquiry Reader

Denzin (communications, U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and Lincoln (education, Texas A & M U.) present this collection of articles from the Sage journal, Qualitative Inquiry. The text is designed to introduce scholars and students to cutting-edge work in qualitative inquiry, to provide a critical framework for interpreting new work, and to show how reflexive methodological work can make a contribution to critical political and moral discourse. Selections from 21 authors, from the behavioral and social sciences, are grouped into five sections based on the ways in which contemporary researchers have employed narrative in their writing: reflexive ethnography, autoethnography, poetics, performance narratives, and assessing the text. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Norman K. Denzin is Professor of Communications, Sociology and Humanities at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Editor of Studies in Symbolic Interaction: A Research Journal and The Sociological Quarterly, Dr. Denzin is the author of numerous books. He is the recipient of two awards from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction: The Cooley Award in 1988, and the George Herbert Mead Award for lifetime contribution to the study of human behavior in 1997.

 

Yvonna S. Lincoln is Professor of Higher Education and Educational Administration at Texas A & M University. She is author, coauthor, or editor of such books as Naturalistic Inquiry and Fourth Generation Evaluation (both with Egon G. Guba), and Organizational Theory and Inquiry. Vice President of Division J (Postsecondary Education) of the American Educational Research Association, Dr. Lincoln formerly served as president of the American Evaluation Association and is the recipient of many prestigious awards. Dr. Lincoln coedited, with Dr. Denzin, the Handbook of Qualitative Research.