Denzin, Norman K.
Lincoln, Yvonna S.
2005
Preface in Denzin, NK et al ~ The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research

ix
“Over the past quarter century, a quiet methodological revolution has been occurring in the social sciences; a blurring of disciplinary boundaries is taking place.”

x
“Qualitative inquiry, among other things, is the name for “a reformist movement that began in the early 1970s in the academy” (Schwandt, 2000, Three epistemological stances for qualitative inquiry: Interpretivism, hermeneutics, and social constructionism. In Denzin/Lincoln; Handbook 2nd ed.; 189-213 p. 189).”

“Many scholars began to judge the days of value-free inquiry based on a God’s-eye view of reality to be over. Today many agree that all inquiry is moral and political.”

“This is the agenda of this third edition, to show how scholars can use the discourses of qualitative research to help create and imagine a free democratic society.”

xi
“the “field” of qualitative research had undergone quantum leaps since the spring of 1991, when we had planned the first edition.”

xii
“the question of methods begins with the design of the qualitative research project. This always begins with a socially situated researcher who moves from a research question to a paradigm or perspective, to the empirical world. So located, the researcher then addresses the range of methods that can be employed in any study.”

xiv
“Internationally, qualitative researchers must struggle against neoliberal regimes of truth, science, and justice.”

“We have left the world of naive realism, knowing now that a text does not mirror the world, it creates the world.”

xv
“There is no one way to do interpretive, qualitative inquiry. We are all bricoleurs stuck in the present working against the past as we move into a politically charged and challenging future.”

xvii
“the very term qualitative research means different things to many different people.“