I would appreciate you can refer to scholarly papers, chapters and articles shedding light on the historical development of the qualitative research paradigm.
For survey research in the US, you could look at Jean Converse's book, Survey Research in the United States: Roots and Emergence 1890-1960.
For the history of sociological methods in general, Jennifer Platt is a widely recognized expert. I have attached one of her papers.
Thank you for your answer. But there was a serious error in the thread. It was qualitative paradigm.
Platt's work is still relevant.
I also have some arguments on this topic for the period from roughly 1985 on in the attached article.
When I started diving into the topic as a student, I found articles from Maura Dowling helpful. They sketch a rough oversight of the topic, while applying a critical perspective on the blurriness of application of the paradigm in a range of cases today. It might be a good entry point before going into detail.
When would one want to use observation or interviewing? When there are multiple causal factors that are difficult to specify in advance, an open ended inductive exploration is called for. If it is not a process where A causes B, but rather A and B are interacting, conducting fieldwork would be the best course. Fieldwork can explore how interpretations are rendered. If one takes a simple object like a tree, it could mean something quite different to a child, a painter, a logger, etc. The only way to understand what the tree means to these various people is to put yourself in their shoes.
I think the best two sources on Symbolic Interactionism are listed below:
Blumer, H. 1969. Symbolic interactionism: Perspective and method. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Rock, P. 1979. The making of symbolic interactionism. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield.
Good luck with your research efforts, Bruce
There are a number of game changing books . Here are some of them, listed by date.
Goffmann, E. (1959). The presentation of self in everyday life. New York, NY: Anchor.
Watzlawick, P., Beavin, J. H., & Jackson, D. D. A. (1967). Pragmatics of Human Communication: A study of international patterns, pathologies, and paradoxes. Norton.
Glaser, B. G, & Strauss, A. L. (1967). The discovery of grounded theory: Strategies for qualitative research. New York, NY: Aldine De Gruyter.
Geertz, C. (1975). The interpretation of cultures. New York, NY: Basic Books.
Recent, but excellent overview: Tracy, S. J. (2010). Qualitative quality: Eight “big-tent” criteria for excellent qualitative research. Qualitative inquiry, 16(10), 837-851.
Have a look into the works of Uwe Flick:
The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Data Analysis.
Introducing Research Methodology.
An Introduction to Qualitative Research Qualitative.
One of my favorites remains: David Silverman's "A very short, fairly interesting and reasonably cheap book about qualitative research"
Obviously reading the classics: Glaser & Strauss, Geertz, Goffman is important, but do not forget Harvey Sacks.
The best historical overview of the "moments" of the qualitative paradigm is in Norman K. Denzin & Yvonna S. Lincoln's "Handbook of Qualitative Research" (several editions), published by Sage.
I have to say that I've always been amused by Denzin and Lincoln's "moments" -- prior to 1985 or so, multiple decades go by without a moment, but once our authors appear on the scene, moments start happening every 2 or 3 years. Sigh...
A recommendable reading focused on Grounded Theory is: Bryant & Charmaz, Grounded theory in historical perspective: an epistemological account, in: The Sage Handbook of Grounded Theory.
I insist on Harvey Sacks because his work allows to bridge between qualitative analysis on the one hand, philosophy of language and speech act theory on the other.
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