3 Picking Your Proj: Identifying Your Research Question

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. 1 Introduction to Dirtbagging 1
5. 2 Topo: What Exactly Are Qualitative Methods? 13
6. 3 Picking Your Proj: Identifying Your Research Question 35
7. 4 On Belay: Connecting Your Work to an Anchor 59
8. 5 Mapping out the Route: How and When Research Design Matters 84
9. 6 Starting on the Right Foot: Making and Justifying Your Case Selection 108
10. 7 Flaking out the Rope: How to Check Your Sample 138
11. 8 Bivvy Time: The Fieldwork Model of Data Collection 164
12. 9 The Crux: Content Analysis, Analytic Memos, and Other Tricks 179
13. 10 Placing Pro: Making Causal Claims with Qualitative Data 208
14. 11 Living on the Sharp End: Dealing with Skeptics of Qualitative Research 231
15. 12 The Sweeper 251
16. Notes 257
17. Bibliography 269
18. Index 279