Qualitative Research:
Why and How to Do lt

Qualitative Research:
Why and How to Do lt

The Relevance of Qualitative Research

is

the study of social relations

Research Questions
as a Starting Point

this occurs because

knowledge about the life is too
limited for starting from a hypothesis

we need explor and understand
the life of the participants.

Limitations of
Quantitative Research

are

general statements are independently about the concrete cases

The observed phenomena are classified
according the frequency and distribution.

empirical social research was
based in surveys.

don´t carried over into
political and institutional practices

the results are rarely used in everyday life.

Essentiat Features

are

appropriate methods and theories

methods are open to the study´s subject

perspetives of the participants

viewpoints and practices are different

the researchers' reflections

become in data

variety of approaches and methods

characterize the discussions
and the research practice.

Landmarks in
Quatitative Research

can provide the starting point and basis
for doing your own empirical study

necessary for understanding and
assessiag existing qualitative research.

Qualitative Research
at the End of Modernity

Qualitative research is oriented towards anaTyzing concrete

Qualitative research is in a position to design ways
for social sciences, psychology, and other fields

A brief History of
Qualitative Research

Beginning

The United States: The traditional period, qualitative
research was interested in the foreign

German-Speaking Areas: the model of the
research process by Glaser andStrauss (1967)

Middle

The United States: Qualitative research recognized
as a process of constructing versions of reality.

German-Speaking Areas: understand the object of research as a preliminary until the end of the research

End

German-Speaking Areas: 1990s the first textbooks or introductions on the background

The United States: Denzin and Giardina (2006)
said the development was conect with politics.