A very short, fairly interesting and reasonably cheap book about qualitative research

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Handbook of Autoethnography (2021, background): “The interpretive-autoethnographer is needed to make sense of a given representation that can be presented using different forms, such as personal narrative, poetry (Weems, 2013), and autoeth - nography.”
Understanding the Role of Objects in Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration (2012, methodology): “The dialogue and “triangulation” between researchers was especially helpful in surfacing the interactional micro politics implicit in the interviewing process (Silverman 2007).”
‘The presentation of self in the online world’: Goffman and the study of online identities (2013, background): “Silverman [49] argues that, in qualitative research, apparently inconsequential details can prove to be excellent data, and so time was taken to study accounts all in responses, not just those that related to research questions.”
Interviewing Reluctant Respondents: Strikes, Henchmen, and Gaelic Games (2010, background): “It illustrates the significance of the researcher becoming immersed in the respondents’ world through talk and observation to understand a rich, complicated, and varied phenomenon (Easterby-Smith & Malina, 1999; Linstead, 1994; Silverman, 2007).”
Design Study Methodology: Reflections from the Trenches and the Stacks (2012, methodology): “Traditional ethnography in the fields of anthropology [6] and sociology [81] aims at building a rich picture of a culture.”