Dialogue in Focus Groups: Exploring Socially Shared Knowledge

by Michèle Grossen, Anne Salazar Orvig, Ivana Markova, et al.

In contrast to a vast literature that provides information and guides about focus groups as a methodological tool, this book is an introduction to understanding focus groups as analytical means exploring socially shared knowledge, e.g. social representations of AIDS, biotechnology or democracy, beliefs and lay explanations of social phenomena. The main emphasis of the book is to examine how to analyse interaction and ideas expressed in focus groups...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845530500
• ISBN13: 9781845530501
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Equinox Publishing
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 9.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher