Ezra@OU

Below is a resource great both for evaluating qualitative studies and for checking one’s own study in terms of methods and ensuring you address these items in your writing.

This is for writing and clarifying your codes/themes/categories

This two-page excerpt from Herbert Blumer includes his critique of statistical methods for lacking validity.

This is a chapter from: Auerbach, Carl F. and Louise B. Silverstein. 2003. Qualitative data: An introduction to coding and analysis. NYU Press.
It offers a concept for qualitative research of “transferability of theoretical constructs” in place of “generalizability.”

Grodal, Stine, Michel Anteby, and Audrey L. Holm. 2021. “Achieving Rigor in Qualitative Analysis: The Role of Active Categorization in Theory Building.” Academy of Management Review 46(3):591-612. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2018.0482.

This article lays out categorization moves in qualitative analysis for coding.


Stein, Arlene and Jessie Daniels. 2017. Going Public: A Guide for Social Scientists. University of Chicago Press.

This chapter offers advice on good writing for public audiences.

Hermanowicz, Joseph C. 2002. “The Great Interview: 25 Strategies for Studying People in Bed.” Qualitative Sociology 25(4): 479–499. doi: 10.1023/A:1021062932081 .

This article offers techniques for conducting interviews.

Weiss, Robert S. 1995. Learning from Strangers: The Art and Method of Qualitative Interview Studies. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.
Chapter 4 on interviewing offers guidance along with transcript excerpts of interviews that are annotated with commentary.