Hammersley, Martyn. "Subject Index." What is Qualitative Research?. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. 123–125. The 'What is?' Research Methods Series. Bloomsbury Collections. Web. 26 Sep. 2021. <>. Downloaded from Bloomsbury Collections, www.bloomsburycollections.com, 26 September 2021, 20:03 UTC. Copyright © Martyn Hammersley 2013. You may share this work for non-commercial purposes only, provided you give attribution to the copyright holder and the publisher, and provide a link to the Creative Commons licence. Index SUBJECT INDEX Dialectical development 31 Discourse analysis 25, 37, 47–8, 60, Action research 8, 48 61, 62, 63, 65 Adults understanding children, Discursive psychology 36 problem of 53–4 Documenting constitutive prac- Afghanistan 16, 17, 18 tices 59–63, 64 ‘Appreciative’ stance 17 Documents, use of 55, 58–9 Armed robbers 5–6 Autobiography 19 Empiricism 23–5 Autoethnography 19, 56 Epistemology 21 Ethnography 47 Biographical methods 19 Ethnomethodology 73, 76 Boxing 4 Etymological defi nition 3 Case study Family practices 60–1 In-depth study of particular Feminism 34 cases 50 Fiction 19 Cross-case analysis 50 Football fans, see Soccer fans Causation, see Identifying causes Footings 71 Chicago, 3, 18, 81 Fronts, see Penetrating fronts Chicago sociology 81 ‘Civic sociology’ 18 Grounded theorizing 49 Cognitivism 74–5 Comprehensive theory (‘critical’ Hermeneutics 27 tradition) 32 Hierarchy of credibility 89 see also Th eory Confi gurational analysis 51 Identifying causes 48–51, 63–4 Constitutive practices, see Idiographic focus 27 Documenting constitutive Immanent critique 30 practices In-depth study of particular cases Constructionism 35–44, 59–60, 63 50 Social constructionism 36 Internal critique 30 Conversation analysis 61, 63, 73 Interpretivism 26–9 Critical discourse analysis 61, 62 Interviews 54–5, 58, 67–80 ‘Critical’ tradition 29–34, 91 Investigating experience 51–6, 64 Cross-case analysis 50 Irritable Bowel Syndrome 8 Crossword puzzle 2 ‘Jane Fry’ 4 What is qualitative research? Journalism, contrast with qualita- Procedural objectivity 23 tive research 15–19, 88 public sociology 18 ‘Lifestyle migration’ 7 Qualitative analysis 1 Marxism 30, 31–4, 43 Qualitative comparative analysis 51 Masculinity 4 Qualitative research, defi nitions of Measurement 23 1, 3, 9, 12–14, 95, 96 Migrants (to Spain) 7 As concerned with words Mixed methods 14, 96–7 rather than numbers 1, 2 Moralism 89 As contrasted with quantitative Multi-modal methods 19 method 9–14 Quantitative research 1, 10–11 Narrative analysis 37, 61, 63 ‘Natural’ settings 13 ‘Radical critique of interviews’ ‘Naturalistic’ data 73 67–80 New Labour 7–8 Reactivity 68 Newton’s physics 23 Refl exivity 55–6 Nomothetic focus (of positivism) Replication 23 27 Riddle-solving 1, 2 Non-compliance with drug regimes 52 Soccer fans 16, 17 Social class (and Marx) 33 Observation, use of 55, 58 Social constructionism, see Ontology 21 Constructionism Standpoint epistemology 33 Paradigms, Kuhn on 38–9 Statistical method 48 Qualitative and quantitative Structuralism 41–2 research as 15 Subanum 6 Parents’ evenings 4 Subjectivity 13 Participatory photography 8 Suicide notes 7 Penetrating fronts 56–9 Survivalists 6 Phenomenology 27–8 Political rhetoric 7–8 Th eory 32, 85–6, 88 ‘Positive loitering’ 3–4 Tonga 3 Positivism 21, 22–6 Transcription 70, 77, 78, 79 Postmodernism 39, 42–3 Transparency, see Procedural Post-structuralism 39, 42–3, 63 objectivity Poverty 81–2, 90 Pragmatism 28 Index Underclass, concept of 82 Value neutrality 32, 88 Verstehen 26 Visual methods 19 ‘Whose side are we on?’ 17, 88–9.