Qualitative research

Why and How to Do It

The relevance of qualitative research

Research Questions as a Starting point

Limitations of Quantitative Research

Essential Features

Appropriateness of Methods and Theories

Perspectives of the Participants

Reflexivity of the Researcher and the Research

Variety of Approaches and Methods

Due to a development

that has become known as the pluralization of life worlds

The study of social relations.

The era of big narratives and theories is over: local y, temporally, and situationally limited narratives are now required.

A research question

requires the use of this sort of approach and not a different one

We need sensitizing concepts for exploring

and understanding this life world and the individual [and socialJ biographical

Have always been taken as a starting point

for developing more general reasons why qualitative research should be used

Guiding principles of research and of planning research

have been used for the following purposes

Clearly isolate causes and effects

Properly operationalize theoretical relations

Measure and to quantify phenomeda

Create research designs allowing the generalizafion of findings

Formulate

general laws

The central ideas guiding qualitative research are different from those in quantitative research.

Demonstrates the variety of perspectives

Study participants knowledge and

practices

Takes into account that viewpoints

and practices are different because of the different subjective

perspectives and social backgrounds.

Take the researcher's communication with the field and its members as an explicit part of knowledge instead of

deeming it an intervening variable

Researchers reflection on their actions and observations in the field, their impressions , irritations , feelings

Become data in their own right, forming part of the

interpretation

Qualitative research is not based on a uniffed theoretical and methodological concept

Subjective viewpoints

The making and course of interactions

Reconstruct the structures of the social field and the latent meaning of practices

Scientific disciplines have used defining methodological standards to distinguish

themselves from other disciplines.

Suitability of ideas and issues for empirical investigations

To study complex issues with qualitative research is to design

hods that are sufficiently open to the complexity of a study's subject.

The goal of research then is less to test what is already known

Qualitative Research