Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kirk, Yerome
• Miller, Marc L

Titel

Reliability and validity in qualitative research

Ort / Verlag

Beverly Hills, Calif. u.a: Sage

Erscheinungsjahr

1986

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Sociological Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Vol I in the Qualitative Research Methods series, in 6 Chpts, with a series Introduction, an editors' Introduction, & a Glossary, discusses the scientific status of field data & offers a practical guide for participant-observation fieldwork. (1) Objectivity in Qualitative Research -- examines the concept of objectivity & outlines the plan of the book. (2) Reliability and Validity -- discusses the "positivist" view & analyzes the components of objectivity. (3) The Problem of Validity -- describes an approach to checking validity, illustrated by concrete examples from fieldwork in Peru & Sri Lanka. (4) Toward Theoretical Validity -- briefly reviews the work of nineteenth-century anthropologists, & of Franz Boas, Bronislaw Malinowski, & the Chicago School. (5) The Problem of Reliability -- offers illustrations of reliability checks, especially in the method of taking fieldnotes. (6) Ethnographic Decision Making: The Four Phases of Qualitative Research -- presents a process model for fieldwork. 2 Figures, 117 References.