Introduction: transformation in principles and practice
Pt. 1. Putting the practice into theory
Institutional ethnography / Dorothy E. Smith
Critical realist ethnography / Sam Porter
Framing the rational in fieldwork / Peter K. Manning
Analysing interaction: video, ethnography and situated conduct / Christian Heath, Jon Hindmarsh
Pt. 2. Generalization, interpretation and analysis
Generalization in interpretive research / Malcolm Williams
Representation, responsiblity and reliability in participant-observation / Martín Sánchez-Jankowski
Automating the ineffable: qualitative software and the meaning of qualitative research / Nigel G. Fielding
Subjectivity and qualitative method / Valerie Walkerdine, Helen Lucey, June Melody
Pt. 3. Choices in context
Observation and interviewing: options and choices in qualitative research / Kathleen Gerson, Ruth Horowitz
Qualitative interviewing: asking, listening and interpreting / Jennifer Mason
Narrative in social research / Steph Lawler
Pt. 4. Power, participation and expertise
Engagement and evaluation in qualitative inquiry / Linda McKie
Negotiating power and expertise in the field / Lynne Haney
On relations between black female researchers and participants / Tracey Reynolds
Pt. 5. Reflexivity, the self and positioning
Ethnography and self: reflections and representations / Amanda Coffey
Reflexivity and the politics of qualitative research / Lisa Adkins
Techniques for telling the reflexive self / Beverley Skeggs
Emotions, fieldwork and professional lives / Sherryl Kleinman.