SOC101Y1 Chapter : Chapter Summaries
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Qualitative and quantitative are not distinct. dabbs (1982) Qualitative research methods are to demonstrate the fruitfulness and often the greater depth of understanding we can derive from qualitative procedures. There are significant lasting contributions of qualitative research. Qualitative research refers to the meanings, concepts, definitions, characteristics, metaphors, symbols, and descriptions of things (in contrast, quantitative research refers to counts and measures of things) Participation observation, including interviewing, uses methods as observation of experimental natural settings, photographic techniques (including videotaping), historical analysis (histography), document and textual analysis, sociometry, sociodrama, ethnographic research, and unobtrusive techniques. Each qualitative method researchers use tend to impose certain perspectives on reality, and thus reveals slightly different facets of the same symbolic reality. We can improve this by combining several lines of sight and produce a better, more substantive picture of reality. Diagram (multiple lines of action in triangulation) p. 6.
