The Third Edition of The SAGE Dictionary of Qualitative Inquiry is the only comprehensive lexicon of terms and phrases that elucidates the origins, logic, meaning, and methods of the ever-expanding field of qualitative inquiry. The dictionary entries are intended to serve as a guide to the methodological and epistemological concepts and theoretical orientations of qualitative inquiry. New to the Third Edition: Offers more comprehensive coverage of qualitative inquiry: More in-depth coverage of methods terms helps users better acquaint themselves with the research options available to them. Contains approximately 70 new entries and a Reader's Guide: This edition includes an abundance of new terms based on developments in the field as well a Reader's Guide. Deepens readers' knowledge of qualitative terminology: Key references have been updated, and several terms and phrases from previous editions have been reorganized and expanded. Book jacket. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Preface	xvii
Introduction	xxiii
Conventions	xxxiv
Dictionary
Action	1
Action Research	3
Agency (vs. Structure)	4
Analytic Generalization	5
Analytic Induction	5
Analyzing Qualitative Data	6
Antinaturalism	8
Applied Research	8
Auditing	8
Audit Trail	9
Authenticity	9
Authenticity Criteria	11
Authority	11
Autoethnography	13
Behaviorism	14
Bias	15
Biography	16
Body	17
Bracketing (Epoche)	19
Bricolage/Bricoleur	20
Case	22
Case Study Research	22
Causal Analysis/Causality	23
Chicago School of Sociology	25
Coding	26
Computer-Assisted Data Analysis	27
Confirmability	29
Conservative Hermeneutics	29
Constant Comparison, Method of	30
Constructivism	30
Content Analysis	34
Context	35
Context of Discovery/Context of Justification	35
Contextualism	36
Conversation Analysis	37
Covering Law Model of Explanation	38
Credibility	39
Crisis of Legitimation	39
Crisis of Representation	41
Criteria	42
Critical Ethnography	44
Critical Hermeneutics	44
Critical Social Science	45
Critical Theory	46
Cross-Case Analysis	46
Cultural Relativism	48
Cultural Studies	49
Culture	50
Data Collection	51
Data Management, Storage, Retrieval	51
Deconstructionism	51
Deduction	54
Deductive-Nomological Explanation	54
Dependability	54
Description	54
Descriptive Statistics	56
Deskwork	57
Dialogic Text	57
Differance	57
Discourse/Discourse Analysis	57
Discourse Theory	58
Discursive Practice	59
Disengagement	59
Disinterested Social Science	59
Document Analysis	60
Double Hermeneutic	60
Dramaturgy	61
Dualism	62
Embodied	63
Emergent Design	63
Emic/Etic	65
Emotion	66
Empirical Research	67
Empiricism	67
End of Philosophy	69
Epistemic Criterion	70
Epistemology	71
Erklarung	72
Essentialism	72
Ethics of Qualitative Inquiry	73
Ethnocentrism	76
Ethnographic Authority	77
Ethnographic Naturalism	77
Ethnographic Realism	78
Ethnography	80
Ethnomethodology	81
Evidence	82
Existentialism	83
Experience	84
Experimental Text	86
Explanation	87
External Validity	88
Fact	89
Fact-Value Distinction	89
Fallibilism	91
Falsification	91
Feminist Epistemologies	92
Fidelity to Method/Fidelity to Phenomenon	94
Field	94
Field Journal	96
Fieldnotes	96
Field Relations	98
Field Studies	99
Fieldwork	99
Foundationalist Epistemologies	101
Frankfurt School	102
Functionalism	102
Geisteswissenschaften	104
Genealogy	104
Generalization	105
Generating Data	108
Grand Narrative	108
Grand Theory	109
Grounded Theory Methodology	110
Hermeneutic Circle	112
Hermeneutic Method	114
Hermeneutics	115
Hermeneutics of Suspicion	116
Historicism	117
Historicity	117
Holism	118
Human Action	119
Hyperreality	119
Hypothetico-Deductive Method	120
Idealism	121
Identity	122
Ideology	123
Idiographic Interpretation	123
Indexicality	124
Inductive Analysis	125
Inductive-Statistical Explanation	125
Inference	125
Informant	126
Inscription	128
Insider/Outsider Perspective	128
Instrumentalism	129
Intentionalism	130
Intentionality	130
Interest	132
Interpretation	133
Interpretive Anthropology	133
Interpretive Turn	134
Interpretivism	134
Intersubjectivity	134
Intertextuality	135
Interviewing	135
Judgment	137
Justification of a Claim	138
Knowledge	139
Language	142
Language Games	144
Lawlike Generalization	146
Lebenswelt	146
Life-History Methodology	146
Life-World	147
Literary Turn (in Social Science)	148
Literature Review	149
Lived Experience	149
Logical Empiricism	149
Logical Positivism	150
Logocentrism	152
Marginal Native	153
Materialist Explanation	153
Meaning	153
Meaning Realism	155
Member Check	155
Memoing	156
Metaethnography	157
Metanarrative	157
Metaphysics	157
Method	158
Methodology	161
Methods of Text Analysis	163
Microethnography	164
Misunderstanding	164
Mixed Methods	164
Multiple Realities	166
Naive Realism	168
Narrative	168
Narrative Analysis	169
Narrative Criteria	169
Narrative Ethics	169
Narrative Explanation	170
Narrative Inquiry	171
Narrative Psychology	171
Narrative Realism	172
Native's Point of View	172
Naturalism	172
Naturalistic Inquiry	173
Naturalistic Interpretation of the Social Sciences	174
Natural Setting	174
Naturwissenschaften	174
Negative Case	175
Nomothetic Knowledge	175
Nonfoundational Epistemologies	175
Objectivism	176
Objectivist Hermeneutics	177
Objectivity	177
Observation	179
Ocular Epistemology	180
Ontological Hermeneutics	180
Ontology	180
Other (the Other, Otherness)	180
Paradigm	183
Paradigmatic Knowledge Claim	184
Participant Observation	185
Participatory Action Research (PAR)	187
Peer Debriefing	188
Performance/Performative/Performativity	188
Phenomenological Sociology	190
Phenomenology	191
Philosophical Hermeneutics	193
Phronesis	194
Play	194
Pluralism	195
Poiesis	197
Politics of Research	197
Positivism	199
Postempiricism	200
Postmodern Ethnography	200
Postmodern Feminism	201
Postmodernism	201
Postpositivism	203
Poststructuralism	203
Practice	204
Pragmatism	204
Praxis	205
Prejudice	210
(The) Problem of the Criterion	210
Propositional Knowledge	211
Purposive Sampling	212
Qualitative	213
Qualitative Evaluation	214
Quantification	215
Quantitative	215
Radical Hermeneutics	216
Rationalism	216
Rationality	217
Reactivity	219
Realism	219
Realist Tale	222
Reciprocity	222
Reductionism	223
Reflexivity	223
Relativism	225
Reliability	226
Representation	227
Research Design	228
Respondent	229
Respondent Validation	229
Review of Literature	229
Sampling Logic	232
Science	234
Scientific Method	235
Scientism	235
Semiotics	236
Sensitizing Concepts	236
Skepticism	237
Social Constructionism	237
Sociology of Scientific Knowledge (SSK)	237
Spectator Theory of Knowledge	238
Standpoint Epistemologies	238
Statistical Explanation	239
Statistical Generalization	240
Structuralism	240
Subjectivism	241
Subjectivity	242
Subject-Object Relationship	243
Symbolic Interactionism	244
Tacit (Personal) Knowledge	246
Teleology	248
Text	248
Textual Analysis, Methods of	250
Textualism	251
Textualization	251
Theoretical Candor	251
Theoretical Sampling	251
Theoretical Saturation	252
Theory	252
Theory-Laden Observation	253
Theory-Observation Distinction	253
Theory of Signs	255
Theory-Practice Relationship	255
Thick Description	255
Transcription	255
Transferability	257
Triangulation	257
Trustworthiness Criteria	258
Truth	259
Underdetermination of Theory by Data	262
Understanding	262
Unity of Method	265
Use of Qualitative Inquiry	265
Validation Hermeneutics	267
Validity	267
Value-Free Social Science	270
Value-Neutrality	270
Verification	270
Verisimilitude	271
Verstehen	272
Verstehende Sociology	276
Voice	277
Weltanschauung	279
Writing Strategies	279
About the Author	281

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