Summary
Contents
Subject index
The Second Edition of The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research in Psychology provides comprehensive coverage of the qualitative methods, strategies, and research issues in psychology. Qualitative research in psychology has been transformed since the first edition's publication. Responding to this evolving field, existing chapters have been updated while three new chapters have been added on Thematic Analysis, Interpretation, and Netnography. With a focus on methodological progress throughout, the chapters are organised into three sections: Section One: Methods Section Two: Perspectives and Techniques Section Three: Applications In the field of psychology and beyond, this handbook will constitute a valuable resource for both experienced qualitative researchers and novices for many years to come.
Developmental Psychology
Developmental Psychology
Introduction
Qualitative research in developmental psychology is no different in principle from other areas of psychology, although its specific focus highlights in stark form key issues for all psychological research. In particular, its preoccupations with conceptualising, measuring and evaluating change and with working with a vulnerable, low status population – with arguably limited and certainly hard-to-interpret repertoires of responses – have generated complex methodological and ethical debates. Indeed the precise relationships between the attributions of limited capacity and difficulty of interpretation constitute most of the conceptual and methodological literature. My aim here is to review more standard methodological treatments in developmental psychology and, beyond this, to indicate some more ‘outlying’ but innovative approaches that offer glimpses ...
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