A New Era in Focus Group Research: Challenges, Innovation and Practice
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Description for A New Era in Focus Group Research: Challenges, Innovation and Practice
Hardback. Editor(s): Barbour, Rosaline S.; Morgan, David L. Num Pages: 300 pages, 23 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JHBC; JHBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This volume provides a critical approach to using focus groups, examining how focus groups have been utilized to research a diverse set of research questions covering a broad spectrum of substantive fields. The collection acknowledges the tensions between different research traditions, disciplinary emphases, funding climates, cultural, political, and ethical contexts, and the ever-changing policy backdrop. Contributors to this book encourage researchers to question and surmount disciplinary and terminological labels and disputes in order to capitalize on the full potential of focus groups, to illuminate the complex collaborative processes involved in forming, debating, contesting, and revising opinions; making decisions; and forging ... Read more
This volume provides a critical approach to using focus groups, examining how focus groups have been utilized to research a diverse set of research questions covering a broad spectrum of substantive fields. The collection acknowledges the tensions between different research traditions, disciplinary emphases, funding climates, cultural, political, and ethical contexts, and the ever-changing policy backdrop. Contributors to this book encourage researchers to question and surmount disciplinary and terminological labels and disputes in order to capitalize on the full potential of focus groups, to illuminate the complex collaborative processes involved in forming, debating, contesting, and revising opinions; making decisions; and forging ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
433
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137586131
SKU
V9781137586131
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99-15
About Barbour
Rosaline S. Barbour is a medical sociologist and is Emerita Professor at the Open University, UK. She runs a company offering bespoke workshops and training sessions on qualitative research methods. David L. Morgan is Professor of Sociology at Portland State University, USA. He is widely known for his work on focus groups and ... Read more
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