About the Book
How we understand and define qualitative data is changing, with implications not only for the techniques of data analysis, but also how data are collected. New devices, technologies and online spaces open up new ways for researchers to approach and collect images, moving images, text and talk. The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Collection systematically explores the approaches, techniques, debates and new frontiers for creating, collecting and producing qualitative data. Bringing together contributions from internationally leading scholars in the field, the handbook offers a state-of-the-art look at key themes across six thematic parts:
Part I Charting the Routes
Part II Concepts, Contexts, Basics
Part III Types of Data and How to Collect Them
Part IV Digital and Internet Data
Part V Triangulation and Mixed Methods
Part VI Collecting Data in Specific Populations
Table of Contents:
PART 1: CHARTING THE ROUTES
Introduction to part 1 - Uwe Flick
Chapter 1: Doing Qualitative Data Collection – Charting the Routes - Uwe Flick
PART 2: CONCEPTS, CONTEXTS, BASICS
Introduction to part 2 - Uwe Flick
Chapter 2: Collecting Qualitative Data: A Realist Approach - Joseph A. Maxwell
Chapter 3: Ethics of Qualitative Data Collection - Donna M. Mertens
Chapter 4: Deduction, Induction, Abduction - Brianna L. Kennedy and Robert Thornberg
Chapter 5: Upside Down - Reinventing Research Design - Giampietro Gobo
Chapter 6: Sampling and Generalization - Margrit Schreier
Chapter 7: Accessing the Research Field - Andrew Bengry-Howell
Chapter 8: Recording and Transcribing Social Interaction - Christopher Jenks
Chapter 9: Collecting Data in Other Languages - Strategies for Cross-Language Research in Multilingual Societies - Katharina Resch and Edith Enzenhofer
Chapter 10: From Scholastic to Emic Comparison: Generating Comparability and Handling Difference in Ethnographic Research - Estrid Sørensen, Alison Marlin and Jörg Niewöhner
Chapter 11: Data Collection in Secondary Analysis - Louise Corti
Chapter 12: The Virtue of Naturalistic Data - Jonathan Potter and Chloe Shaw
Chapter 13: Performance, Hermeneutics, Interpretation - Norman K. Denzin
Chapter 14: Quality of Data Collection - Rosaline S. Barbour
PART 3: TYPES OF DATA AND HOW TO COLLECT THEM
Introduction to part 3 - Uwe Flick
Chapter 15: Qualitative Interviews - Kathryn Roulston and Myungweon Choi
Chapter 16: Focus Groups - David L. Morgan and Kim Hoffman
Chapter 17: Narrative Data - Michael Murray
Chapter 18: Data Collection in Conversation Analysis - Clare Jackson
Chapter 19: Collecting Data for Analyzing Discourses - Asta Rau, Florian Elliker and Jan K. Coetzee
Chapter 20: Observations - David Wästerfors
Chapter 21: Doing Ethnography: Ways and Reasons - Marie Buscatto
Chapter 22: Go-Alongs - Margarethe Kusenbach
Chapter 23: Videography - Hubert Knoblauch, René Tuma and Bernt Schnettler
Chapter 24: Collecting Documents as Data - Tim Rapley and Gethin Rees
Chapter 25: Collecting Images as Data - Thomas S. Eberle
Chapter 26: Collecting Media Data: TV and Film Studies - Lothar Mikos
Chapter 27: Sounds as Data - Michael Bull
PART 4: DIGITAL AND INTERNET DATA
Introduction to part 4 - Uwe Flick
Chapter 28: The concept of ‘Data’ in Digital Research - Simon Lindgren
Chapter 29: Moving Through Digital flows: An Epistemological and Practical Approach - Annette N. Markham and Ane Kathrine Gammelby
Chapter 30: Ethics in Digital Research - Katrin Tiidenberg
Chapter 31: Collecting Data for Analyzing Blogs - Wivian Weller, Lucélia de Moraes Braga Bassalo, and Nicolle Pfaff
Chapter 32: Collecting Qualitative Data from Facebook: Approaches and Methods - Joanne Meredith and Hannah Ditchfield
Chapter 33: Troubling the Concept of Data in Qualitative Digital Research - Annette Markham
PART 5: TRIANGULATION AND MIXED METHODS
Introduction to part 5 - Uwe Flick
Chapter 34: Triangulation in Data Collection - Uwe Flick
Chapter 35: Toward an Understanding of a Qualitatively-Driven Mixed Methods Data Collection and Analysis: Moving Toward a Theoretically-Centered Mixed Methods Praxis - Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber
Chapter 36: Data-Related Issues in Qualitatively-Driven Mixed-Method Designs: Sampling, Pacing, and Reflexivity - Janice M. Morse, Julianne Cheek, and Lauren Clark
Chapter 37: Combining Digital and Physical Data - Nigel Fielding
Chapter 38: Using Photographs in Interviews: When We Lack the Words to Say What Practice Means - Karen Henwood, Fiona Shirani, and Chris Groves
PART 6: COLLECTING DATA IN SPECIFIC POPULATIONS
Introduction to part 6 - Uwe Flick
Chapter 39: Collecting Qualitative Data with Children - Colin MacDougall and Philip Darbyshire
Chapter 40: Collecting Qualitative Data with Older People - Christine Stephens, Vanessa Burholt, Norah Keating
Chapter 41: Generating Qualitative Data with Experts and Elites - Beate Littig, Alexander Bogner and Wolfgang Menz
Chapter 42: Collecting Qualitative Data with Hard-to-Reach Groups - Kerry Chamberlain and Darrin Hodgetts
About the Author :
Uwe Flick is Senior Professor of Qualitative Research in Social Science and Education at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. He is a trained psychologist and sociologist and received his PhD from the Freie Universität Berlin in 1988 and his Habilitation from the Technical University Berlin in 1994. He has been Professor of Qualitative Research at Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Germany and at the University of Vienna, Austria. Previously, he was Adjunct Professor at the Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John’s, Canada; a Lecturer in research methodology at the Freie Universität Berlin; a Reader and Assistant Professor in qualitative methods and evaluation at the Technical University Berlin; and Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Medical Sociology at the Hannover Medical School. He has held visiting appointments at the London School of Economics, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Cambridge University (UK), Memorial University of St John’s (Canada), University of Lisbon (Portugal), Institute of Higher Studies in Vienna, in Italy and Sweden, and the School of Psychology at Massey University, Auckland (New Zealand). His main research interests are qualitative methods, social representations in the fields of individual and public health, vulnerability in fields like youth homelessness or (forced) migration and chronical illness in everyday live. He is the editor of The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Design (2 Vols.; Sage 2022). The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Analysis (Sage, 2014), The SAGE Qualitative Research Kit (Sage, 2nd edn, 2018), A Companion to Qualitative Research (Sage, 2004), Psychology of the Social (Cambridge University Press, 1998). His most recent publications are the seventh edition of An Introduction to Qualitative Research (Sage, 2023), Doing Grounded Theory (Sage, 2018), Doing Triangulation and Mixed Methods (Sage, 2018), The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Collection (editor, Sage, 2018), the third edition of Introducing Research Methodology – Thinking Your Way through Your Research Project (Sage, 2020) and Doing Interview Research - The Essential How To Guide (Sage 2022). In 2019, Uwe Flick received the Lifetime Award in Qualitative Inquiry at the 15th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.
Review :
Professor Flick’s Handbook offers several pathways to understanding qualitative data -and the appropriate methods - for discovery, exploration, analysis, storage, retrieval, and sharing, as well as working with multiple methods. The materials about cultural contexts, reflexive accounts, and especially the use of electronic documents illuminate the challenges and solutions of more sophisticated qualitative analysis.
The Handbook of Qualitative Data Collection brings together the leading scholars to express the dynamism and creativity which now cut across all disciplines and topics. The major types of qualitative data collection include interviews, focus groups, narratives, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, observations, ethnography, performance and hermeneutics, and videography, with pragmatic ideas about how to conduct each type of data collection. Two major sections discuss and analyze digital data collection, and how to use these data alone of with other forms of qualitative data. The critical issues of induction, generalization, sampling, and triangulation are presented with clarity and elegance. This Handbook will be foundational for years to come.
