VVI Research Meetings 2022-2023
Rocking Qualitative Social Science: An Irreverent Guide to Rigorous Research
- Date
- Wednesday 22 March 2023
- Time
- Address
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Kamerlingh Onnes Building
Steenschuur 25
2311 ES Leiden - Room
- B0.30
In this talk, I will discuss my new book, Rocking Qualitative Social Science (Stanford University Press, 2021), focusing on my motivations for writing it and what I see as its main contributions. I will emphasize the importance of matching the research process to the goals of the research project. In that spirit, I will contrast the common emphasis on the one “right way” of doing qualitative research to what I call the “dirtbagging” approach to research, which is a more inclusive and flexible approach that still follows the scientific method, but rearranges the steps in ways that we are often told not to do. Finally, I will offer some highlights from the book, focused on countering some conventional wisdom.