This paper reviews and critiques the positive accounting literature following publication of
Watts and Zimmerman (1978, 1979). The 1978 paper helped generate the positive …

In this paper we reflect on current trends and anticipate future prospects regarding
qualitative research in Psychology. We highlight various institutional and disciplinary …

One of our bestselling handbooks, The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research in
Psychology, is back for a second edition. Since the first edition qualitative research in …

Community psychology (CP) is a transformative subdiscipline of psychology which aims to
address inequality and social injustice and to attend to wellbeing. It has been argued that …

In this essay, the authors consider the challenge made by two keynote speakers at recent
social work research conferences, one in the United States and the other in Europe. Both …

Given the importance of qualitative methods to social justice psychological research,
qualitative methods training needs to begin at the undergraduate level. Faculty-led research …

The aim of this methodological commentary with a research component is to promote
informed uses of mixed methods in psychological research. We used a concurrent mixed …

Qualitative methods have become increasingly popular among researchers, and while many
comprehensive textbooks describe the standard techniques and philosophical assumptions …

Psychological researchers have become increasingly concerned with generalized accounts
of human behavior based on narrow participant representation. This concern is particularly …

Quantitative social scientists have adopted the positivist epistemology and methodology of
natural sciences, seeking objectivity, generalisability, and neutrality. However, in social …