Johan Alvehus is professor at the Department of Service Studies, Lund University.
At the beginning of writing a thesis, many questions arise, for example:
- How do I know that I have formulated a relevant research problem?
- Have I chosen the right empirical method?
- Are interviews or observations appropriate?
- How should I structure my text to get my point across in the best way?
- What exactly is a theory?
- How can the quality of my work be assessed?
Crafting Your Thesis is a broad and accessible handbook in qualitative methods that gives you clear and concise answers to these questions – and many more. The book can be used both in introductory university courses, where you as a student encounter questions of method for perhaps the first time, and right up to Master´s thesis level, where it gives a quick overview of different available qualitative methods and highlights questions that must be dealt with when crafting the thesis.
Preface to the English edition 1. Introduction Part 1: Method 2. Why method? 3. What is qualitative method? 4. What is theory? 5. What is data? Part 2: Writing 6. What is a thesis? 7. What is a problem? 8. What is a reference? 9. What is a scientific language? 10. What is write-work? Part 3: Fieldwork 11. What is sampling? 12. What is triangulation and crystallization? 13. What is a case study? 14. What is an interview? 15. What is a focus group? 16. What is an observation? 17. What is ethnography? Part 4: At the desk 18. What is an analysis? 19. What is critique? 20. What is quality? 21. Conclusion 22. Further reading
This is a broad and accessible handbook in qualitative methods that gives you clear and concise answers to these questions – and many more. The book can be used both in introductory university courses, where you as a student encounter questions of method for perhaps the first time, right up to Master´s thesis level.
Über den Autor
Johan Alvehus is professor at the Department of Service Studies, Lund University.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Preface to the English edition 2. Introduction 3. Part 1: Method 4. Why method? 5. What is qualitative method? 6. What is theory? 7. What is data? 8. Part 2: Writing 9. What is a thesis? 10. What is a problem? 11. What is a reference? 12. What is a scientific language? 13. What is write-work? 14. Part 3: Fieldwork 15. What is sampling? 16. What is triangulation and crystallization? 17. What is a case study? 18. What is an interview? 19. What is a focus group? 20. What is an observation? 21. What is ethnography? 22. Part 4: At the desk 23. What is an analysis? 24. What is critique? 25. What is quality? 26. Conclusion 27. Further reading 28. References
