QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

1. DEFINITION

   • systematic scientific inquiry which seeks to build a holistic, largely narrative, description to inform the researcher’s understanding of a social or cultural phenomenon

2. TYPES

   • 1) PHENOMENOLOGY
     • describing something that exists as an integral part of the world in which we are living
   • 2) ETHNOGRAPHY
     • “portrait of a people” and a methodology for descriptive studies of cultures and peoples with cultural parameters
       • geographical – a particular region or country
       • religious
       • tribal – a family construction or its types
       • shared experience
       • life style as a manner to live together
   • 3) GROUNDED THEORY
     • research methodology that allows theory/theories to emerge from the data that is collected. Follows a systematic yet flexible process to collect data, code the data, make connections and see what theory/theories are generated or are built from the data.
   • 4) CASE STUDY
     • analyses of persons, events, decisions, periods, projects, policies, institutions, or other systems that are studied holistically by one or more methods.
       • exploratory
         • decriptive
       • types of cases
         • 1. Key cases
         • 2. Outlier cases
         • 3. Local knowledge cases

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