Question
Download Solution PDFWhich of the following terms best indicates the intent of a qualitative research?
A. Understanding
B. Explanation
C. Description
D. Exploration
E. Interpretation
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Detailed Solution
Download Solution PDFQualitative research is research using methods such as participant observation or case studies which result in a narrative, descriptive account of a setting or practice. Sociologists using these methods typically reject positivism and adopt a form of interpretive sociology.
Important Points
- Qualitative research aims to study things in their natural setting to make sense of a phenomenon in terms of meanings people bring to them.
- It doesn't involve any form of intervention or a method to manipulate the studied environment.
- Qualitative research uses observation as the data collection method. Observation is the selection and recording of behaviors of people in their environment.
- It aims to describe variation, explain relationships, describe behaviour, experiences and norms of individuals and groups.
- Qualitative research help the researchers to use thick description, meaning thereby that, since the data collected by the participants involve the responses, experiences, interpretations, phenomena and rituals they follow. The description of the events, processes, phenomena, the interview and discussion with the participants should be thoroughly mentioned by the researcher. Thus, the qualitative research involves thick description, which includes the clear description of the culture, context, process and steps of research which helps in construction of reality and analysis of research.
- Qualitative research is interested in understanding the meaning people have constructed, that is, how people make sense of their world and the experiences they have in the world.
Thus, Understanding, exploration, and Interpretation terms best indicate the intent of qualitative research.
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