Defending Qualitative Research. Design, Analysis, and Textualization

Focusing on qualitative research’s phases which precede and follow fieldwork - design, analysis, and textualization– this book provides the reader with new theoretical tools to tackle one of the most common criticisms advanced against qualitative research: its presumed lack of rigour. Rejecting the notion of ‘rigour’ as formulated in quantitative research and based on the theory of probability, it proposes, through the reference to the theory of argumentation a theoretical frame that allows combining the goals of rigour and that of creativity. As such, it will appeal to scholars and students across the social sciences with interests in qualitative research methods.