Introduces the researcher to basic methods of gathering, analyzing and interpreting qualitative empirical materials.

Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials, Fourth Edition is Volume III of the three-volume paperback versions ofThe SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, Fourth Edition. This portion of the handbook considers the tasks of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting empirical materials, and comprises the complete handbook′s "Part IV: Methods of Collecting and Analyzing Empirical Materials" and "Part V: The Art and Practices of Interpretation, Evaluation, and Presentation."

Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials, Fourth Edition introduces the researcher to basic methods of gathering, analyzing and interpreting qualitative empirical materials. Part 1 moves from narrative inquiry, to critical arts-based inquiry, to oral history, observations, visual methodologies, and autoethnographic methods. It then takes up analysis methods, including computer-assisted methodologies, focus groups, as well as strategies for analyzing talk and text. The chapters in Part II discuss evidence, interpretive adequacy, forms of representation, post-qualitative inquiry, the new information technologies and research, the politics of evidence, writing, and evaluation practices.

Preface - Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln
About the Editors
About the Contributors
1. Introduction: The Discipline and Practice of Qualitative Research - Norman K.Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln
I. Methods of Collecting and Analyzing Empirical Materials
2. Narrative Inquiry: Still a Field in the Making - Susan E. Chase
3. Critical Arts-based Inquiry: The Pedagogy and Performance of a Radical Ethical Aesthetic - Susan Finley
4. Oral History - Linda Shopes
5. Observations on Observation: Continuities and Challenges - Michael Angrosino and Judith Rosenberg
6. Visual Methodology: Toward a More Seeing Research - Jon D. Prosser
7. Performative Autoethnography: Critical Embodiments and Possibilities - Tami Spry
8. The Methods, Politics, and Ethics of Representation in Online Ethnography - Sarah Gaston
9. Analyzing Talk and Text - Anssi Parakyla and Johanna Ruusuvuori
10. Focus Groups: Contingent Articulations of Pedagogy, Politics, and Inquiry - George Kamberelis and Greg Dimitriadis
II. The Art and Practices of Interpretation, Evaluation, and Presentation
11. Qualitative Research, Science, and Government: Evidence, Criteria, Policy, and Politics - Harry Torrance
12. Reflections on Interpretive Adequacy in Qualitative Research - David L. Altheide and John M. Johnson
13. Analysis and Representation Across the Continuum - Laura L. Ellingson
14. Post Qualitative Research: The Critique and the Coming After - Elisabeth Adams St. Pierre
15. Qualitative Research and Technology: In the Midst of a Revolution - Judith Davidson and Silvana diGregorio
16. The Elephant in the Living Room, or Extending the Conversation About the Politics of Evidence - Norman K. Denzin
17. Writing into Position: Strategies for Composition and Evaluation - Ronald J. Pelias
18. Evaluation as a Relationally Responsible Practice - Tineke Abma and Guy A.M. Widdershoven, Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln
Author Index
Subject Index