CRIM 2653 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Qualitative Inquiry, Critical Criminology
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Moves from the particular to the general. It is about generating a theory and theory making. The end goal is to create a generalizable theory from a set of particular observations. Refers to a method of qualitative inquiry and the results of that inquiry. Its goal is to describe the lived experience of the subjects or participants of the study. Lived experience: what we"ve experienced prior to your actual experience. From a method"s perspective, almost all phenomenology involves in dept research (par) This is the view that the researcher can be both be a researcher and a participant. Came out of the marxist theories of feminist theories of critical criminology. This is primarily documentary, library, archive based research. What people say and why they say it.
