This book provides researchers and students with a user-friendly, step-by-step guide to planning qualitative research. It shows how the components of design interact with each other, and provides a strategy for creating coherent and workable relationships among these design components, highlighting
Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach (Applied Social Research Methods)
β Scribed by Joseph A. Maxwell
- Publisher
- Sage Publications, Inc
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This invaluable book presents an innovative approach to qualitative design that emphasizes the components of a design and how these interact with each other and the environment in which the study is situated. A clear strategy for creating coherent and workable relationships among these design components is provided and key design issues are highlighted. These design issues include: clarifying the purposes of the study; creating a theoretical context for the research; formulating research questions; developing a relationship with the people being studied; making decisions about sampling, data collection and analysis; and assessing validity threats and alternative explanations to the study's conclusions. In addition, the book explains how
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