Margaretha Järvinen is professor at Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research areas are client and welfare state encounters, symbolic interaction, qualitative methodologies and social problems (addiction, prostitution, homelessness). Her publication record within these areas includes books and around 45 peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Social Science & Medicine, Sociology of Health and Illness, Current Sociology, Youth and Society, Time & Society, British Journal of Criminology, Qualitative Inquiry and Symbolic Interaction.

Nanna Mik-Meyer is professor at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Her main areas or research is identity work in organisations, micro-sociology, qualitative methodology and processes of marginalisation (the sociology of the body, disability, homelessness). She has publish books with Routledge and Manchester University Press as well as approx. 25 peer-reviewer articles in journals such as Human Relations, Work, Employment, Society, Sociology of Health and Illness, Gender, Work and Organization, British Journal of Sociology and Journal of Classical Sociology, .

Chapter 1: Analysing qualitative data in the social science - Margaretha Järvinen and Nanna Mik-Meyer
Chapter 2: Symbolic interactionism as analytical tradition - Margaretha Järvinen
Chapter 3: Symbolic interactionism, stigma, and othering - Nanna Mik-Meyer
Chapter 4: Phenomenology as qualitative methodology - Michael Gill
Chapter 5: Phenomenological analysis and the relationship between researcher and field - Anne Roelsgaard Obling
Chapter 6: Hermeneutics - theory and methods - Nils Gilje
Chapter 7: Interpretation, prejudice and the hermeneutic circle - Søren Kristiansen
Chapter 8: Critical realism as qualitative method - Lee Martin
Chapter 9: Critical realism: Philosophical and methodological considerations - Amber Fletcher
Chapter 10: Grounded Theory - main characteristics - Kathy Charmaz
Chapter 11: Sampling and conceptualization in Grounded Theory - Catherine Colon
Chapter 12: Narrative Analysis: An integrative approach - Michael Bamberg
Chapter 13: Narrative analysis - thematic, structural, performative - Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson & Ditte Andersen
Chapter 14: Michel Foucault's discourse analysis - Kaspar Villadsen
Chapter 15: Critical discourse analysis - Teun A. van Dijk
Chapter 16: Actor-network theory as analytical approach - Lise Justesen
Chapter 17: Actor-network theory and qualitative interviews - Jakob Demant and Signe Ravn