Qualitative Research Practice: A Guide for Social Science Students and ResearchersJane Ritchie, Jane Lewis, Carol McNaughton Nicholls, Rachel Ormston Why use qualitative methods? What kinds of questions can qualitative methods help you answer? How do you actually do rigorous and reflective qualitative research in the real world? Written by a team of leading researchers associated with NatCen Social Research (the National Centre for Social Research) this textbook leads students and researchers through the entire process of qualitative research from beginning to end - moving through design, sampling, data collection, analysis and reporting. In this fully revised second edition you will find:
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Page 1997
... behaviour of the researcher . Consequently the researcher can be objective in their approach and the investigation can be viewed as value free . While some researchers subscribe to this model , others believe that in the social world ...
... behaviour of the researcher . Consequently the researcher can be objective in their approach and the investigation can be viewed as value free . While some researchers subscribe to this model , others believe that in the social world ...
Page 1998
... behaviour could be identified . Positivist assumptions have since been refined and questioned by those working within both the natural sciences and quantitative social research . For example , during the 1930s and 1940s , Popper ...
... behaviour could be identified . Positivist assumptions have since been refined and questioned by those working within both the natural sciences and quantitative social research . For example , during the 1930s and 1940s , Popper ...
Page 2000
... behaviour . As an interpretive tradition , symbolic interactionism informed the development of grounded theory as a methodological approach ( Glaser and Strauss , 1967 , Aldiabat and Le Navenec , 2011 ) . One of the best known ...
... behaviour . As an interpretive tradition , symbolic interactionism informed the development of grounded theory as a methodological approach ( Glaser and Strauss , 1967 , Aldiabat and Le Navenec , 2011 ) . One of the best known ...
Page 2001
... behaviour ⚫ whether it is appropriate to disregard the meaning and purpose of behaviour in controlled experimental studies ⚫ whether overarching theories of the world and aggregated data have any relevance and applicability to the ...
... behaviour ⚫ whether it is appropriate to disregard the meaning and purpose of behaviour in controlled experimental studies ⚫ whether overarching theories of the world and aggregated data have any relevance and applicability to the ...
Page 1987
... behaviour and social roles to understand how people interpret and react to their environment . Developing ' emergent ' theories of social action through the identification of analytical categories from the data and the relationships ...
... behaviour and social roles to understand how people interpret and react to their environment . Developing ' emergent ' theories of social action through the identification of analytical categories from the data and the relationships ...
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