The Qualitative Manifesto

Norman K. Denzin is Distinguished Emeritus Research Professor of Communications at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of over 50 books and 200 professional articles and chapters. He is the past President of The Midwest Sociological Society, and the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. He is founding President of the International Association of Qualitative Inquiry (2005–), and Director of the International Center of Qualitative Inquiry (2005–). He is past editor of The Sociological Quarterly, founding co-editor of Qualitative Inquiry, and founding editor of Cultural Studies–Critical Methodologies, International Review of Qualitative Research, and Studies in Symbolic Interaction: A Research Annual.

Acknowledgments. Preface to the Classic Edition. Introduction. 1. A Global Community and the Sociological Imagination. 2. Critics and Bricoleurs. 3. Back to the Future. 4. Pedagogical Practices: Teaching Qualitative Inquiry. 5. Ethical Disclosure, or, in the Forest, but Lost in the Trees, or, a One-Act Play with Many Endings. 6. Reading, Writing, and Publishing the Experimental Text. 7. Templates for Social Justice Inquiry. 8. Coda: A Call to Arms. Appendix 1. A Teaching Template. Appendix 2. An Ethical Code for Qualitative Researchers.