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A Companion to

QUALITATIVE

RESEARCH

A Companion to

QUALITATIVE

RESEARCH

Edited by Uwe Flick, Ernst von Kardorff and Ines Steinke

Translated by Bryan Jenner

SAGE Publications

London ● Thousand Oaks ● New Delhi

This English edition first published 2004

Originally published in the series “rowohlts enzyklopädie” under the title

QUALITATIVE FORSHCHUNG – Ein Handbuch

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