This comprehensive, expanded version offers a sophisticated introduction to qualitative methods based upon six major approaches: ethnography, grounded theory, case study, narrative, phenomenological, and participatory action research.

Similar to the earlier edition, this Second Edition is a highly readable introduction to qualitative research that combines attention to methodological rigor with pragmatic concerns for real-world relevance.

New to the Second Edition:

" offers guidelines for writing a qualitative methods proposal

" emphasizes community-based and cross-cultural research

" presents case illustrations of exemplary qualitative studies, with several drawn from the author's qualitative study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health

" provides an expanded discussion of the paradigm debates in qualitative inquiry

" gives detailed instructions on coding and thematic development.