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Focus Groups, Volume I: A Selective Annotated Bibliography
Focus Groups, Volume I: A Selective Annotated Bibliography Summary:By Graham R. Walden
of focus group methodology in a variety of nonmedical subjects from the past decade. The intended users include professional focus group practitioners, scholars in the areas covered, graduate and undergraduate students, and others wishing to conduct this type of qualitative inquiry. This is volume one of a twovolume set; the second book will deal exclusively with the medical and health sciences literature. The reason for the division is because the medical community has demonstrated extensive usage of the approach, with their applications exceeding all other subject disciplines combined in terms of published academic book and journal article production. (Market researchers undoubtedly represent the largest segment of users, but their research is primarily proprietary and not published for public access.) The annotations in this volume, averaging 160 words, are intended to both describe the content and enable the reader to gain a clear understanding as to whether pursuing the full text for the particular item is appropriate. SCOPE In broad terms the types of materials include the following categories: instructional guides, handbooks, reference works, textbooks, and the academic journal literature. The subject disciplines covered in the arts and humanities are linguistics, music, religion, and sports and leisure studies. In the social sciences the following disciplines have entries: anthropology, business, cartography, communication, demography, education, law, library science, political science, psychology, and sociology. The nonmedical sciences addressed are agriculture, biology, engineering, environmental studies, and physics. The subject areas represented were not selected as such, but rather were included because they are the appropriate studies available in each category. Stated another way, disciplines not found in this bibliography are absent due to a lack of publicly available documentation. The entries selected have a minimum of four pages. Generally speaking, shorter articles are either opinion pieces or of such brevity as to not merit inclusion alongside the more substantial academic literature. Throughout the development of the focus group methodology in this country, the vocabulary used to describe the technique has included the following: group interview, group depth interview, group discussion, focus group, focus group discussion, focused interview, focus group interview, nominal group interview, and qualitative group discussion. European variants include psychodynamic market research group and cooperative research. Since the 1980s, the most frequently used terms in print and online databases are focus group(s), focus group interview(s), and focused group interview(ing). Modified, and in some cases rewritten, entries from the author’s two published articles in the field have been incorporated into this bibliography. These are “Focus Group Interviewing in the Library Literature: A Selective Annotated Bibliography 1996–2005” (Reference Services Review, vol. 34, no. 2, 2006, pp. 222–241), and “Recent Books on Focus Group Interviewing and Mass Communication” (Communication Booknotes Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 2, Spring 2006, pp. 76–93). The bibliography has the following counts by category of inclusion: 29 books, 50 book chapters, 349 articles, and 10 pamphlets, totaling 438 entries. COVERAGE The bibliography focuses on the core academic literature published from 1997 through 2006 as found in books, book chapters, journal articles, and significant pamphlets from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, India, and other countries where the document has been made available in English (this means that some articles appear in their translated form). The cited authors include individuals from many countries beyond the scope of the English-speaking regions of the world. All items can be publicly accessed, and each is available from at least one location via interlibrary loan. A partial list of materials specifically excluded incorporates the following: book reviews, conference proceedings, critical works, editorials, Internet resources (including journals available only online), letters, mass-market periodicals, master’s theses and doctoral dissertations, newspaper articles, and opinion pieces. APPENDIX The appendix lists all source journals found in the citations, with the appropriate item numbers provided. There are 245 individual journal titles listed. INDEXES The author index lists the name of all authors, coauthors, and editors found in the citations, with the appropriate item numbers provided. The aim of the subject index is to reference unique terms. The detailed contents pages, with multiple subheadings, are intended as the primary approach to access the entries in this bibliography. Please select one mirror to download
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