Social researchers increasingly find themselves looking beyond conventional methods to address complex research questions. The Handbook of Emergent Methods is the first book to comprehensively examine emergent qualitative and quantitative theories and methods across the social and behavioral sciences. Providing scholars and students with a way to retool their research choices, the volume presents cutting-edge approaches to data collection, analysis, and representation. Leading researchers describe alternative uses of traditional quantitative and qualitative tools; innovative hybrid or mixed methods; and new techniques facilitated by technological advances. Consistently formatted chapters explore the strengths and limitations of each method for studying different types of research questions and offer practical, in-depth examples. "The book describes the 'roots' of the major qualitative methods and how they are developing, outlines innovations in research design and analysis, and explores the impact that these developments are having on methods per se. Hesse-Biber and Leavy are to be congratulated for bringing together leaders in the field to create this seminal work, which will have a profound impact on qualitative methods."—Janice M. Morse, Professor and Barnes Presidential Endowed Chair, College of Nursing, University of Utah "This is a powerful and valuable work for anyone involved in social science research....Whether deconstructing document research, arts-based approaches, or historical methods, or extending our understanding of interviewing, performance ethnography, and participatory approaches, all of the chapters provide greater clarity about how we do what we do in the qualitative research community. If their goals were to illuminate, transform, and inspire, these editors and contributors have certainly hit their mark." —Valerie J. Janesick, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of South Florida "This book will be of value to both novice and more well-established investigators who wish to pursue their research endeavors more flexibly, reflectively, and inclusively."—Bruce L. Berg, Department of Criminal Justice, California State University, Long Beach "This comprehensive handbook details creative new approaches to asking and exploring questions within the social sciences. These approaches offer liberation from the narrowing straits of logical positivistic measurement and quantification, and chart the paths to addressing more socially meaningful questions. They provide means for examining social reality with fresh tools." —Ruthellen Josselson, School of Psychology, Fielding Graduate University "Hesse-Biber and Leavy's timely and constructive response to the collapse of disciplinary authority and the postmodern challenge in the social sciences does not take an 'anything goes' position. The editors and their collaborators argue for a principled and rational approach to orchestrating research that welcomes and evaluates a bewildering array of emergent methods in the social sciences. This handbook both provides invaluable, specific guidance to researchers and frames the notion of methodological emergence as a theoretical challenge in its own right." —Davydd J. Greenwood, Goldwin Smith Professor of Anthropology, Cornell University Contents: Introduction: Pushing on the Methodological Boundaries—The Growing Need for Emergent Methods within and across the Disciplines, Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber and Patricia Leavy I. Historical Context of Emergent Methods and Innovation in the Practice of Research Methods Introduction to Part I, Patricia Leavy and Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber History 1. History of Methods in Social Science Research, Karen M. Staller, Ellen Block, and Pilar S. Horner 2. Gender Inclusion, Contextual Values, and Strong Objectivity: Emergent Feminist Methods for Research in the Sciences, Sue V. Rosser 3. A Post-Newtonian, Postmodern Approach to Science: New Methods in Social Action Research, Lisa Cosgrove and Maureen McHugh 4. Emergence in and from Quasi-Experimental Design and Analysis, Melvin M. Mark Document Research 5. Researching Documents: Emergent Methods, Lindsay Prior 6. Emergent Qualitative Document Analysis, David Altheide, Michael Coyle, Katie DeVriese, and Christopher Schneider Grounded Theory 7. Grounded Theory as an Emergent Method, Kathy Charmaz Interviewing 8. New Frontiers in Standardized Survey Interviewing, Frederick G. Conrad and Michael F. Schober 9. Emergent Approaches to Focus Group Research, David Morgan, Collin Fellows, and Heather Guevara 10. Emergent Issues in International Focus Group Discussions, Monique M. Hennink 11. Three Dimensions and More: Oral History Beyond the Paradoxes of Method, Michael Frisch Ethnography 12. Narrative Ethnography, Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein 13. Public Ethnography, Carol A. Bailey 14. Emergent Methods in Autoethnographic Research: Autoethnographic Narrative and the Multiethnographic Turn, Christine S. Davis and Carolyn Ellis 15. New Critical Collaborative Ethnography, Himika Bhattacharya Arts-Based Practice 16. Visual Research Methods: Where Are We and Where Are We Going?, Gunilla Holm 17. Performance-Based Emergent Methods, Patricia Leavy II. Innovations in Research Methods Design and Analysis Introduction to Part II, Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber 18. Mixed Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches: An Introduction to Emergent Mixed Methods Research, Vicki L. Plano Clark, John W. Creswell, Denise O. Green, and Ronald J. Shope 19. Emergent Techniques in the Gathering and Analysis of Mixed-Methods Data, Charles Teddlie, Abbas Tashakkori, and Burke Johnson 20. Data Analysis and Interpretation: Emergent Issues in Linking Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence, Sarah Irwin 21. Longitudinal Research: An Emergent Method in the Social Sciences, Elisabetta Ruspini 22. Categorizing and Connecting Strategies in Qualitative Data Analysis, Joseph A. Maxwell and Barbara A. Miller 23. Metaphorical Analysis: An Emergent Analytical Tool, Zazie Todd and Simon J. Harrison 24. Hearing Voices: Listening for Multiplicity and Movement in Interview Data, Lynn Sorsoli and Deborah L. Tolman III. The Impact of Emergent Technologies on Research Methods Introduction to Part III, Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber 25. Internet Research as Emergent Practice, Christine Hine 26. Internet-Mediated Research as an Emergent Method and Its Potential Role in Facilitating Mixed-Methods Research, Claire Hewson 27. Hypermedia Methods for Qualitative Research, Bella Dicks & Bruce Mason 28. Mixed Emotions, Mixed Methods: The Role of Emergent Technologies in Studying User Experience in Context, Ingrid Mulder and Joke Kort 29. Emergent Methods in Feminist Geography, Mei-Po Kwan 30. Neural Networks an Emergent Method in Quantitative Research: An Example of Self-Organizing Maps, Natalia Sarkisian 31. User-Centered Perspectives on Qualitative Data Analysis Software: The Impact of Emergent Technologies and Future Trends, Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber and Christine Crofts 32. The Role of Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis: Impact on Emergent Methods in Qualitative Research, Nigel Fielding Contributors: David Altheide, School of Justice and Social Inquiry, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona Carol Bailey, Department of Sociology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Himika Bhattacharya, Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, Illinois Ellen Block, School of Social Work, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan Kathy Charmaz, Department of Sociology, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California Frederick G. Conrad, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan Lisa Cosgrove, Department of Counseling and School Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts Michael Coyle, Department of Political Science, California State University, Chico, California John W. Creswell, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska Christine Crofts, Department of Sociology, Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts Christine S. Davis, Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina Katie DeVriese, School of Justice and Social Inquiry, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona Bella Dicks, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom Carolyn Ellis, Department of Communication, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida Collin Fellows, Department of Sociology, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon Nigel Fielding, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Surrey, United Kingdom Michael Frisch, Department of History and American Studies, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York Denise O. Green, Office for Institutional Diversity, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan Jaber F. Gubrium, Department of Sociology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri Heather Guevara, Department of Sociology, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon Simon J. Harrison, Institute of Psychological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom Monique M. Hennink, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber, Department of Sociology, Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts Claire Hewson, Department of Psychology, Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom Christine Hine, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Surrey, United Kingdom Gunilla Holm, Department of Education, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland James A. Holstein, Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Pilar S. Horner, School of Social Work, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan Sarah Irwin, Department of Sociology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom Burke Johnson, Department of Professional Studies, College of Education, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama Joke Kort, TNO Information and Communication Technology, Groningen, The Netherlands Mei-Po Kwan, Department of Geography, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio Patricia Leavy, Department of Sociology, Stonehill College, Easton, Massachusetts Melvin M. Mark, Department of Psychology, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania Bruce Mason, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom Joseph A. Maxwell, Graduate School of Education, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia Maureen McHugh, Department of Psychology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania Barbara A. Miller, Center for Leadership and Learning Communities, Education Development Center, Newton, Massachusetts David Morgan, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon Ingrid Mulder, Institute for Communication, Media, and Information Technology, Rotterdam University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and Telematica Institute, Enschede, The Netherlands Vicki L. Plano Clark, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska Lindsay Prior, School of Sociology, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Ireland, United Kingdom Sue V. Rosser, School of History, Technology, and Society, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia Elisabetta Ruspini, Department of Sociology, University of Milan–Bicocca, Milan, Italy Natalia Sarkisian, Department of Sociology, Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts Christopher Schneider, School of Justice and Social Inquiry, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona Michael F. Schober, Department of Psychology, New School for Social Research, New York, New York Ronald J. Shope, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska Lynn Sorsoli, Center for Research on Gender and Sexuality, San Francisco, California Karen M. Staller, School of Social Work, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan Abbas Tashakkori, College of Education, Florida International University, Miami, Florida Charles Teddlie, College of Education, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana Zazie Todd, Institute of Psychological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom Deborah L. Tolman, Center for Research on Gender and Sexuality, and Human Sexuality Studies Program, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California About the Editors: Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber, Department of Sociology, Boston College, Patricia Leavy, Department of Sociology, Stonehill College |