Qualitative Psychology, 1st Edition, 9780335213498
Paperback
Introduces theoretical approaches to ethnography, interviewing, narrative, discourse and psychoanalysis. This book includes numerous boxes that outline key issues in the development, application and assessment of qualitative research methods, and debates and problems with particular qualitative meth…

Qualitative Psychology, 1st Edition

introducing radical research

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  • Paperback

    200 pages

  • Release Date

    16 December 2004

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Summary

“An introduction to the varieties of qualitative research in psychology is long overdue, and Parker’s book should with its broad scope, accessible style, and controversial viewpoints on trends of the current qualitative wave, have a wide audience.” Steinar Kvale, Aarhus University, Denmark

“This is a wonderful, insightful and necessary book…It takes students through this complex terrain in a clear, readable and yet challenging way.”Bronwyn Davies, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780335213498
ISBN-10:0335213499
Author:Ian Parker
Publisher:Open University Press
Imprint:Open University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:200
Edition:1st
Release Date:16 December 2004
Weight:302g
Dimensions:230mm x 152mm x 12mm
Series:UK Higher Education OUP Psychology
About The Author

Ian Parker

Ian C. Parker received his B.A. (Hons.) in economics and English from the University of Manitoba in 1966, and completed a Masters program in economics and in English at the University of Toronto in 1968. As a volunteer with Canadian University Service Overseas (CUSO), he then worked for three years as an economist with the National Development Corporation of Tanzania. He subsequently received his doctorate in economics from Yale University. Since 1975, he has taught at the University of Toronto. He has conducted economic research in East and West Africa and in Europe, and has served as an economic consultant in the area of media economics. His principal current research preoccupations include the economics of the Internet, the contributions of Keynes’s theory of probability to the economics of information and uncertainty, and the theoretical and practical implications of fixed capital for the economics of communications systems.

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