Essentials of Qualitative Inquiry

By Maria J. Mayan. 2009

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This brief, inexpensive guide introduces students and novices to the key elements of qualitative research methods. Written in a friendly, conversational style, replete with good examples from multiple disciplines, student exercises, and key points to remember, the volume works ideally with other qualitative textbooks to provide a comprehensive overview to qualitative methods for students. Chapters cover the essentials of theory building, research design, methods, data collection and analysis, writing, ethics, rigor and proposal writing.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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A grounded theory of psychological resilience in Olympic champions (2012, background): “…work of Morse (1999), Holt and Tamminen (2010b) recently suggested that qualitative studies should display “methodological congruence” (p. 419); that is, consistency should be evident throughout a scholar’s research question, philosophical orientation, and theoretical perspective (cf. Mayan, 2009).”
Parental Behaviors in Team Sports: How do Female Athletes Want Parents to Behave? (2011, methodology): “This mixture of more inductive and more deductive elements of analysis, often termed abductive analysis, is a common technique in qualitative research (Mayan, 2009).”
A holistic perspective on career development in UK female soccer players: A negative case analysis (2015, result): “Therefore, the selected variant of grounded theory was consistent with the philosophical underpinning and aims of our study, thus demonstrating methodological congruence (Mayan, 2009).”
Parents' Perspectives on the Benefits of Sport Participation for Young Children (2014, background): “Second, while data analysis was initially completed by the lead researcher, both researchers engaged in regular discussions about the emerging themes, patterns, and relationships which provided a sense of analytic balance (Mayan, 2009).”
Implicit Transfer of Life Skills Through Participation in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (2016, background): “The goal was to obtain information rich cases who could provide detailed insights into the purpose of the study (Mayan, 2009).”
Thinking through and designing qualitative research studies: a focused mapping review of 30 years of qualitative research in sport psychology (2019, background): “We also examined the methodological coherence (Mayan, 2009) of qualitative studies.”
‘Eyes on where children play’: a retrospective study of active free play (2015, methodology): “The use of a range of strategies in this manner incrementally contributes to ensuring the methodological rigor of a study (Mayan 2009).”
Validity, Responsibility, and Aporia (2010, background): “For the sake of the argument presented here, the concept of validity in qualitative research can encompass such terms as authenticity, credibility, confirmability, internal coherence, transferablity, reliability, and significance (see Lather, 2007a; Mayan, 2009).”