 | Marite Kirikova - Computers - 2002 - 478 pages
...At this level qualitative research involves an interpretative, naturalistic approach to the world. This means that qualitative researchers study things...their natural settings, attempting to make sense of or to interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to them. Case studies, ethnography research,... | |
 | Alan Gillies - Nursing - 2002 - 168 pages
...website. Qualitative research According to Greenhalgh and Taylor (1997), qualitative research aims to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to them. They identify three characteristics of good qualitative research: Characteristics of good qualitative... | |
 | Alan Earl-Slater - Medical - 2002 - 364 pages
...out a person's opinions, beliefs, feelings, knowledge and articulation about a given topic. It seeks to make sense of or interpret phenomena in terms of the meanings that people attach to them. For example: • Benson and Britten reported on a qualitative study of... | |
 | D. Geelan - Science - 2007 - 190 pages
...matier. This means that qualitative researchers study things in thcir natural setiings, atiempting to make sense of. or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people hring to them. Qualitative research invoKes the studied use and collectinn of a variety of empirical... | |
 | Daniela Wawra - Communication - 2004 - 406 pages
...qualitative Untersuchungsmethode wie folgt beschrieben werden: Qualitative research is multimethod in focus. involving an interpretive, naturalistic...phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to them. (Denzin/Lincoln 1994: 2) The word qualitative implies an emphasis on processes and meanings that are... | |
 | Yvonne L. LaMar, Yvonne LaMar - Self-Help - 2004 - 248 pages
...they experience it. As Denzin and Lincoln (1994) explain: Qualitative research is multimethod in its focus, involving an interpretive, naturalistic approach...phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to them (p. 2). This qualitative or interpretive approach typifies Afrocentric and Feminist scholarship. The... | |
 | Premilla D'Cruz - Medical - 2004 - 226 pages
...approach to the problem. This means that qualitative researchers study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of or interpret phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to them (Denzin and Lincoln 1994) Through this process, the researcher builds a holistic and complex picture... | |
 | Donna M. Mertens - Education - 2005 - 540 pages
...self. At this leve!, qualitative research involves an interpretive, naturalistic approach to the world. This means that qualitative researchers study things...natural settings, attempting to make sense of, or to interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to them. Qualitative research involves... | |
 | Jenny Phillimore, Lisa Goodson - Business & Economics - 2004 - 360 pages
...the world . . . qualitative research involves an interpretive, naturalistic approach to the world. This means that qualitative researchers study things...natural settings, attempting to make sense of, or to interpret phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to them. A basic assumption of participant... | |
 | Cristina Sanz - Computers - 2005 - 348 pages
...following genefal definition, "Qualitative research is multimethod in focus, involving an interpretive and naturalistic approach to its subject matter. This...phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to them" (p. 2). Qualitative research is often contrasted with nonqualitative approaches. L2 researchers have... | |
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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... 
