The second edition of this best-selling text continues to offer immensely practical advice and technical expertise to aid researchers in making sense of their collected data. Basics of Qualitative Research, Second Edition presents methods that enable researchers to analyze and interpret their data, and ultimately build theory from it. Highly accessible in their approach, authors Anselm Strauss (late of the University of San Francisco and co-creator of grounded theory) and Juliet Corbin provide a step-by-step guide to the research act-- from the formation of the research question through several approaches to coding and analysis, to reporting on the research. Full of definitions and illustrative examples, this highly accessible book concludes with chapters that present criteria for evaluating a study, as well as responses to common questions posed by students of qualitative research. Significantly revised, Basics of Qualitative Research remains a landmark volume in the study of qualitative methods. </P>

硃麗葉·科賓（護理學碩士，護理學博士，傢庭護理師）是聖何塞州立大學大學的護理學院社區衛生護理專業的一名臨床指導教師。她與安塞爾姆·施特勞斯閤作撰寫瞭《質性研究的基礎》（1990）第1版和第2版。她的研究興趣、教學、演說和著述都是在質性研究方法論、慢性病以及社會工作等專業領域內。

安塞爾姆·施特勞斯齣生於1916年12月18日，於1996年9月5日去世。去世時，他還是加利福利亞大學（聖弗朗西斯科）社會和行為科學係的榮譽教授。他的研究和教學活動都是在健康和疾病社會學等專業領域中。他做研究的取嚮是質性的，目的是要建構理論，他和巴尼·格拉澤是紮根理論的重要奠基者。很多年，他一直是劍橋大學、巴黎大學、曼徹斯特大學、康斯坦斯大學、哈根大學及阿德雷德大學的訪問教授。他一生撰寫瞭大量的論文和著作，其中很多被翻譯成其他語言。