The after effects of trauma have assumed a central role in the discourses of psychiatry and
psychology in recent years. Most commentators have looked for an explanation of this …

Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) are becoming ubiquitously available, being embedded both
into everyday mobility via smartphones, and into the life of the home via'assistant'devices …

Computer science as an engineering discipline has been spectacularly successful. Yet it is
also a philosophical enterprise in the way it represents the world and creates and …

INTRODUCING QUALITATIVE METHODS provides a series of volumes which introduce
qualitative research to the student and beginning researcher. The approach is …

I wish to thank friends and colleagues who have helped me in writing this book. The
Discourse and Rhetoric Group at Loughborough University has been a continuous source of …

Today's organizations face a wide variety of challenges, including such contradictions as
maintaining unity of action while becoming increasingly diverse. Even the definition of …

Giampietro Gobo is Professor of Methodology of Social Research at the University of Milan.
His research has been focused on qualitative methods and the improvement of survey data …

Identity'attracts some of social science's liveliest and most passionate debates. Theory
abounds on matters as disparate as nationhood, ethnicity, gender politics and culture …

PREFACE quality n. 1. a characteristic, property or attribute. 2. high grade; superior. of prep.
A particle indicating 5, a relation of identity. life n. 1. Condition which distinguishes animals …

How is qualitative social research possible? That is a question that one can try to answer in
many different ways. How is it possible in principle? How is it possible in actual practice …