Qualitative Data Analysis

The latest edition of this bestselling textbook by Miles and Huberman not only is considerably expanded in content, but is now available in paperback. Bringing the art of qualitative analysis up-to-date, this edition adds hundreds of new techniques, ideas and references developed in the past decade to the corpus contained in the first. The increase in the use of computers in qu...

The latest edition of this bestselling textbook by Miles and Huberman not only is considerably expanded in content, but is now available in paperback. Bringing the art of qualitative analysis up-to-date, this edition adds hundreds of new techniques, ideas and references developed in the past decade to the corpus contained in the first. The increase in the use of computers in qualitative analysis is also reflected in this volume. There is an extensive appendix on criteria to choose from among the currently available analysis packages. Through examples from a host of social science and professional disciplines, Qualitative Data Analysis remains the most comprehensive and complete treatment of this topic currently available to scholars and applied researchers.

Matthew B.Miles是一位社会心理学家，他始终关注着教育改革及其成功之道（Miles，1992）。在质性研究方面，他所进行的第一项全面探究，是研究6所新型学校的创建，为期4年（Miles，1980；Miles et al.，1978）。他所写的《吸引人的麻烦事》（At.tractive Nuisance，Miles，1979b）是对质性研究所做的深刻思考，也预示了他此生要献身的学术志趣。