ABSTRACT
This chapter offers practical advice on a range of qualitative data-gathering techniques. Since analytical standpoints are often implied in particular data-gathering methods, the chapter also begins to introduce some of the themes of research theory that will preoccupy much of the rest of the book. Indeed, data-collection methods are intrinsically theoretical in that they carry assumptions about what qualifies as ‘good’ data and also about how that data might be ‘read’ and understood.
