SOC387H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Grounded Theory, Intersectionality, Nazi Human Experimentation
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Introduction: the methodological strengths and dilemmas of qualitative sociology (jeff goodwin. The article addresses the concern that qualitative sociology lacks methodological rigor and reliable generalized findings, and tries to refute it. Designing social inquiry: scientific inference in qualitative research (king, keohane, verba) contends that qualitative social scientists should perform research using standards that are closer to a scientific, quantitative method. Kkv contend that both types of research share the same logic of inference . King set out a number of rules for rigorous rules of research that should be followed by both types of research. These 10 rules (finding data in variable contexts, not selecting observations based on dependent variables, etc. ) are listed on p. 35 of the article. As they have detailed them, kkv have created a set of rules that leave qualitative research lacking. Gh state that there do exist many more differences than similarities in the methods used in qualitative research.
