Selected+Readings

Recommended Bibliography

 * Becker, H. and M. McCall (Eds.). Symbolic Interactionism and Cultural Studies. University of Chicago Press. Chicago. 1990.
 * Blumer, H. Symbolic Interactionism. University of California Press. Berkeley, California. 1969.
 * Creswell, J.W. Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Traditions. Sage Publishing Company. Thousand Oaks, CA, 1998.
 * Denzin, N.K., Interpretive Ethnography: Ethnographic Practices for the 21st Century. Sage Publishing Company. Thousand Oaks, CA, 1997.
 * Denzin, N. and Lincoln, Y. Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials. Sage Publishing, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1998.
 * Farberman, H. Studies in Symbolic Interactionism: A Research Guide. JAI Press. 1985.
 * Gendlin, E. Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning. Northwestern University Press. Chicago. 1997.
 * Glaser, B. G. and Strauss, A. L. The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research. New York: Aldine Publishing Co., 1967.
 * Husserl, E. (1964). The idea of phenomenology. (W.P Alston & G. Nakhnikian, Trans.) Nijhoff Press, The Hague, Netherlands, 1964.
 * Kraathwohl, D. Methods of Educational and Social Science Research: An Integrated Approach. Addison Wesley Publishers, New York, 1997.
 * Polkinghorne, D. Methodology for the Human Sciences. State University of New York Press. Albany, New York, 1983.
 * Polkinghorne, D. Narrative knowing and the human sciences. State University of New York Press, Albany, New York, 1988.
 * Schatz, Edward (ed.) Political Ethnography: What Immersion Contributes to the Study of Power. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2013.
 * Shank, G. Qualitative Research: A Personal Skills Approach. Merrill Prentice Hall. Columbus, Ohio, 2002.
 * Sokolowski, R. Introduction to Phenomenology. Cambridge Press. New York. 1998.
 * Strauss, A. L. Qualitative Analysis for Social Scientists. NY: Cambridge, 1987.
 * Ricoeur, P. Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning. The Texas Christian University Press, Fort Worth, Texas, 1976.
 * Ricoeur, P. The Rule of metaphor (R.Czerny, Trans.). University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1975.
 * Zaner, Richard M. The Way of Phenomenology: Criticism as a Philosophical Discipline. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, 1970.

Post-Structuralism, Critical Feminism (recommended by Hanna Guttorm)

 * Barthes, R. (1975). The Pleasure of the Text (R. Miller, Trans.). Oxford, UK: Blackwell, Ltd.
 * Braidotti, R. (2011). Nomadic Theory - The Portable Rosi Braidotti. NY: Columbia University Press.
 * Denzin, N. K. (2010). The Qualitative Manifesto - A Call to Arms. CA, USA: Left Coast Press, Inc.
 * Jackson, A. Y. & Mazzei, L. A. (2009). Voice in Qualitative Inquiry - Challenging conventional, interpretive, and critical conceptions in qualitative research. NY: Routledge.
 * Lather, P. & Smithies, C. (1997). (eds.) Troubling the Angels - Women Living with HIV/AIDS. Boulder, Colorado, USA: Westview Press.
 * Peters, M. A. & Burbules, N. C. (2004). Poststructuralism and Educational Research. Maryland, USA: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Ltd