The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research

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Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. A History of Qualitative Inquiry in Social and Educational Research

Norman K. Denzin was Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Communications, College of Communications Scholar, and Research Professor of Communications, Sociology, and Humanities at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. One of the world’s foremost authorities on qualitative research and cultural criticism, he was the author or editor of more than 30 books, including The Qualitative Manifesto; Qualitative Inquiry Under Fire; Reading Race; Interpretive Ethnography; The Cinematic Society; The Alcoholic Self; and a trilogy on the American West. He was past editor of The Sociological Quarterly, co-editor of six editions of the... More About Author

Yvonna S. Lincoln is Professor Emerita at Texas A&M University, where she held the Ruth Harrington Chair of Educational Leadership and was Distinguished Professor of Higher Education. She is the coeditor of the journal Qualitative Inquiry, coeditor of the first through six editions of The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, and coeditor of The SAGE Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies. As well, she is the coauthor, editor, or coeditor of more than a half dozen other books and volumes. She has served as the President of the Association for the Study of Higher Education and the American Evaluation Research Association,... More About Author

Michael D. Giardina is Professor of Physical Culture and Qualitative Inquiry in the Department of Sport Management at Florida State University, USA. He is the author or editor of more than 20 books, including the award-winning Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation: Consumption and the Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism (with Joshua Newman; Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and Collaborative Futures in Qualitative Inquiry: Research in a Pandemic (with Norman K. Denzin; Routledge, 2021). He is a two-time recipient of the NASSS Outstanding Book Award (2006, 2012). He is the coeditor of Qualitative Inquiry, coeditor of Cultural Studies?Critical... More About Author

Gaile S. Cannella is an independent scholar who for many years served as a tenured Full Professor at Texas A&M University – College Station and at Arizona State University – Tempe, as well as the Velma Schmidt Endowed Chair of Education at the University of North Texas.  Her scholarship focuses on diverse constructions of critical qualitative inquiry, reconceptualist and critical childhood studies, and justice broadly related to childhood, support for diversity, environmental studies and human/nonhuman conceptualizations and power orientations.  Dr. Cannella’s work has appeared in more than 100 chapters and journal articles;... More About Author