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untitled BOOK REVIEW The New Language of Qualitative Method By Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein New York: Oxford University Press, 1997 244 pp. $24.95 (paper) Reviewed by Robert Bogdan, Syracuse University The term qualitative research is relatively new. It was not until the early 1970s that it came into widespread use. Prior to that, the approaches that fall under that term were referred to by such words as fieldwork, participant observation, ethnography, and the Chicago School approach. They were almost exclusively located within the disciplines of anthropology and sociology. The phrase qualitative research both heralded the beginning of an interdisciplinary approach and served to forge it. Not belonging to any one tradition, the phrase heralded twenty years of increased influence, development, and cross- fertilization. While “qualitative research” provided affiliation for people in the 1970s and early 1980s, by the late 1980s and 1990s, shifts in the field began pulling adherents apart. Some people who first embraced qualitative research in the 1980s had been trained in quantitative approaches. They have championed a brand of qualitative research that is more structured and systematized than the early methods. At the same time, other qualitative researchers were attracted to scholarship in the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Symbolic Interaction University of California Press

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BOOK REVIEW The New Language of Qualitative Method By Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein New York: Oxford University Press, 1997 244 pp. $24.95 (paper) Reviewed by Robert Bogdan, Syracuse University The term qualitative research is relatively new. It was not until the early 1970s that it came into widespread use. Prior to that, the approaches that fall under that term were referred to by such words as fieldwork, participant observation, ethnography, and the Chicago School approach. They were almost exclusively located within the disciplines of anthropology and sociology. The phrase qualitative research both heralded the beginning of an interdisciplinary approach and served to forge it. Not belonging to any one tradition, the phrase heralded twenty years of increased influence, development, and cross- fertilization. While “qualitative research” provided affiliation for people in the 1970s and early 1980s, by the late 1980s and 1990s, shifts in the field began pulling adherents apart. Some people who first embraced qualitative research in the 1980s had been trained in quantitative approaches. They have championed a brand of qualitative research that is more structured and systematized than the early methods. At the same time, other qualitative researchers were attracted to scholarship in the

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