Qualitative research: Methods in the social sciences

Case Study Research: Design and Methods

1984 • 77,633 citations

The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research.

1968 • 48,070 citations

The Practice of Social Research

1989 • 15,146 citations

Studies in Ethnomethodology.

1968 • 12,540 citations

Social Theory and Social Structure

1958 • 10,861 citations

Practical Research: Planning and Design

1990 • 9,722 citations

Focus Groups: A Practical Guide for Applied Research

1989 • 8,354 citations

Ethnography: Principles and Practice

1983 • 7,965 citations

Action Research and Minority Problems

1946 • 5,953 citations

Analyzing social settings : a guide to qualitative observation and analysis

1971 • 5,668 citations

Focus Groups: Theory and Practice

1990 • 3,930 citations

The Power Elite

1956 • 3,793 citations

Research methods in the social sciences

2005 • 3,320 citations

Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods

2015 • 2,848 citations

The research act

1978 • 2,175 citations

The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization

1934 • 2,041 citations

Unobtrusive Measures: Nonreactive Research in the Social Sciences

1966 • 2,034 citations

Membership Roles in Field Research

1987 • 1,513 citations

Street Corner Society

1943 • 1,000 citations

Field Research: Strategies for a Natural Sociology.

1974 • 984 citations

Speaking of Ethnography

1986 • 909 citations

Focus Group Interview: An Underutilized Research Technique for Improving Theory and Practice in Health Education

1987 • 819 citations

Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places.

1971 • 789 citations

When Prophecy Fails

1956 • 778 citations

The Social Life of a Modern Community.

1942 • 686 citations

The child in America

1928 • 681 citations

The Social Systems of American Ethnic Groups.

1946 • 520 citations

Nonreactive Measures in the Social Sciences

1981 • 511 citations

Advanced Design in Nursing Research

1998 • 430 citations

Visual ethnography: Using photography in qualitative research

1989 • 421 citations

Qualitative Research Traditions: A Review

1987 • 415 citations

The Use of Personal Documents in Psychological Science

1942 • 385 citations

The Professional Thief

1988 • 383 citations

The Logical Structure of Analytic Induction

1951 • 317 citations

The Focused Interview

1956 • 311 citations

Structuring School Structure

1978 • 307 citations

Ripping and Running: A Formal Ethnography of Urban Heroin Addicts

1973 • 291 citations

The Jack-Roller

1966 • 287 citations

Qualitative Sociology: A Method to the Madness

2019 • 276 citations

Experiencing Fieldwork: An Inside View of Qualitative Research

1991 • 265 citations

Presidential Address: Two Methods in Search of a Substance

1975 • 252 citations

Communication and Social Order.

1964 • 242 citations

Research methods in criminal justice and criminology

1993 • 234 citations

On Becoming a Social Scientist

2017 • 208 citations

God's Choice: The Total World of a Fundamentalist Christian School

1992 • 198 citations

Talking Social Structure: Discourse, Domination and the Watergate Hearings

1985 • 194 citations

The Living and the Dead: A Study of the Symbolic Life of Americans

1959 • 192 citations

Images of information : still photography in the social sciences

1979 • 186 citations

The Presentation of Everyday Life

1986 • 171 citations

The Impact of Mass Media Violence on U.S. Homicides

1983 • 168 citations

Oldtimers and Alzheimer's: The Descriptive Organization of Senility

1986 • 159 citations

Classroom Management: Students’ Perspectives, Goals, and Strategies

1986 • 144 citations

Living the Ethnographic Life

1990 • 138 citations

How Jews Avoid Alcohol Problems

1980 • 127 citations

The Deferential Worker

1977 • 121 citations

The Status System of a Modern Community.

1942 • 118 citations

Lag responses in mood reports to changes in the weather matrix

1975 • 93 citations

Synagogue Life: A Study in Symbolic Interaction.

1977 • 83 citations

Surviving Fieldwork: A Report of the Advisory Panel on Health and Safety in Fieldwork.

1991 • 80 citations

Prescription for reduction of aggression.

1980 • 76 citations

Getting Rowdy with the Boys

1980 • 69 citations

A Phenomenological Study of Suicide Notes

1967 • 67 citations

Kids, Drugs, and Crime

2012 • 56 citations

Being Different: The Autobiography of Jane Fry.

1977 • 54 citations

The conduct of social research

1979 • 53 citations

The quality of doctoral programs in deviance, criminology, and criminal justice: An empirical assessment

1984 • 52 citations

Taking it like a woman

1984 • 41 citations

Routledge Revivals: Village Life and Labour (1975)

2016 • 40 citations

The Politics of Participation in Field Research

1986 • 40 citations

Preschoolers’ Play Behavior in Outdoor Environments: Effects of Traditional and Contemporary Playgrounds

1986 • 38 citations

Videotape safaris: Entering the field with a camera

1985 • 36 citations

Qualitative content analysis of television news: Systematic techniques

1989 • 36 citations

Diagnosing Defenses Against the Outsider

1952 • 30 citations

Periodical Prestige in Criminology and Criminal Justice

1983 • 26 citations

Types of Portrayal and Aggressive Behavior

1977 • 24 citations

Manny: A Criminal-Addict's Story.

1979 • 24 citations

To Everything There Is a Season

1984 • 21 citations

Rape

1979 • 7 citations

?Word crunching?: An annotated bibliography on computers and qualitative data analysis

1984 • 7 citations

Aids in Prison: The Social Construction of a Reality

1988 • 5 citations

“Time-out”: The Recreational Use of Drugs by Portuguese-American Immigrants in Southeastern New England

1980 • 5 citations

The Little, Brown guide to writing research papers

1982 • 4 citations

Qualitative Data as a Potential Source of Theory in Nursing

1971 • 3 citations

Jewish Identity: Subjective Declarations Or Objective Life Styles

1983 • 3 citations