PSYC 3100 Lecture Notes - Qualitative Property, Internal Validity, Nomothetic
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Exercise 2: observe an animal for 15 minutes. Qualitative research is multimethod in focus, involving an interpretive, naturalistic approach to its subject matter. This means that qualitative researchers study things in their natural settings, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings that people bring to them. Qualitative research involves the studied use of an collection of a variety of empirical materials case study, personal experience, introspective, life story, interview, observational, historical, interactional, and visual texts. That describe routine and problematic moments and meanings in individuals" lives. Accordingly, qualitative researchers deploy a wide range of interconnected methods, hoping always to get a better fix on the subject matter at hand. Discourse analyses looks at the implications of how people talk and understand things because it affects our understanding. Grounded theory a research strategy with various methods but the name is what you get out of it (a very popular method)
