HLSC 3P37 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: All The Above (Maino Song), Relativism, Historical Realism
18 Apr 2017
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Qualitative research in health sciences week 3. Methodology describes the research process and methods are data collection tools. The purpose of this study is to understand the essence of lived experience of stress in university students. Qualitative researchers most often follow an inductive approach this means: They start with the social world and find a theory that supports it. When a researcher no longer learns anything in a research setting, he or she has reached the stage of theoretical saturation. Varies from quantitative because you have to do x number of interviews but you can stop with qualitative when you hit theoretical saturation. If a researcher"s paradigm is a positivism perspective, he or she sees reality. One of the foundations of qualitative research is to reject the notion of an objective reality . True all truths are subjective to the observer. Being aware of the researcher"s philosophical assumptions is important because:
