 | Richard Jessor, Anne Colby, Richard A. Shweder - Psychology - 1996 - 544 pages
...multimethod in focus, involving an interpretive, naturalistic approach to its subject matter. This means qualitative researchers study things in their natural...settings, attempting to make sense of or interpret these things in terms of the meanings people bring to them. Qualitative research involves the studied... | |
 | Richard A. Swanson - Business & Economics - 1997 - 256 pages
...qualitative component to the design. Overview of the Qualitative Research Process As noted earlier, qualitative researchers study things in their natural...phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to them. The qualitative research methodology selected for a specific study should fit with the natural setting... | |
 | Ruth Roberts - Evidence-based medicine - 1999 - 96 pages
...what it purports to measure'.19 Qualitative researchers aim to 'study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to them'.2" Wilson-Barnett21 comments that 'with qualitative description, rigour and evidence are produced... | |
 | Anne Byrne, Ronit Lenṭin - Feminism - 2000 - 284 pages
...was clearly qualitative. Qualitative research is multi-method in focus, involving an interpretative, naturalistic approach to its subject matter. This...phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to them. Accordingly, qualitative researchers deploy a wide range of interconnected methods, hoping always to... | |
 | Clyde Hendrick - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 506 pages
...research, Denzin and Lincoln (1994) provided a generic sense of what distinguishes this domain of inquiry: "Qualitative researchers study things in their natural...phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to them" (p. 2). One of the defining features of qualitative research is the researcher's relationship with... | |
 | Seteney Shami, Seteney Khalid Shami, Linda Herrera - Social Science - 1999 - 180 pages
...multi-method in focus, involving an interpretive, naturalistic approach to its subject matter. ..(whereby). ..researchers study things in their natural settings,...phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to them (1994: 2). As such, qualitative research is problem-oriented and context-specific. It is distinguished... | |
 | Don C. Locke, Jane Myers, Edwin L. Herr - Psychology - 2001 - 788 pages
..."multimethod in focus, involving an interpretive, naturalistic approach to its subject mattet. In other words, qualitative researchers study things in their natural...make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of meanings people bring to them" (Denzin & Lincoln, 1994, p. 2). Although qualitative research tends... | |
 | Claire Foster - Medical - 2001 - 178 pages
...research takes an interpretative approach to subject matter, studying things in their natural settings and attempting to make sense of or interpret phenomena in terms of the meanings that people bring to them. Qualitative research recognizes that there are many different ways of making... | |
 | Barry Goldson, Michael Lavalette, Jim McKechnie - Social Science - 2002 - 228 pages
...of these different techniques. According to Denzin and Lincoln: Qualitative research is multimethod in focus, involving an interpretive, naturalistic...phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to them. (1994: 2) A definition with a similar emphasis is provided by Bryman (1988: 46) who sees qualitative... | |
 | Mark Pogrebin - Law - 2003 - 426 pages
...reflect a multifaceted perspective, involving "an interpretive, naturalistic approach to its suhject matter. This means that qualitative researchers study...interpret phenomena in terms of the meanings people hring to them." It is up to the researchers to comprehend the shared meanings of the social world that... | |
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This means that qualitative researchers study things in their natural settings, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to... 
