Qualitative research and its importance in daily life is composed of the following lessons:
1. Definition of Qualitative Research
2. Characteristics of Qualitative Research
3. Types of Qualitative Research
4. Advantages or Strengths of Qualitative Research
5. Disadvantages or Weakness of Qualitative Research
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Qualitative research and its importance in daily life
4. Qualitative research is a type of social science research that
collects and works with non-numerical data and that seeks to interpret
meaning from these data that help understand social life through the
study of targeted populations or places. (Crossman, 2020).
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5. Qualitative research is
multimethod in focus, involving
an interpretive, naturalistic
approach to its subject matter.
This means that qualitative
researchers study things in their
natural settings, attempting to
make sense of, or interpret,
phenomena in terms of the
meanings people bring to them.
Denzin and Lincoln (1994, p. 2)
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32. 1. It adopts a naturalistic approach to its subject matter, which means that those
involve in the research understand things based on what they find meaningful.
2. It promotes a full understanding of human behavior or personality traits in their
natural setting.
3. It is instrumental for positive societal changes.
4. It engnders respect for people's individuality as it demands the researcher's
careful and attentive stand toward people's world views.
5. It is a way of understanding and interpreting social interactions.
6. It increases the researcher's interest in the study as t includes the researcher's
experience or background knowledge in interpreting verbal and visual data.
7. It offers multiple ways of acquiring and examining knowledge about something.
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34. 1.It involves a lot of researcer's subjectivity in data
analysis
2.It is hard to know the validity or reliability of the data.
3.Its open-ended questions yield data overload that
requires long-time analysis.
4.It is time-consuming
5.It involves several processes, which results greatly
depend on the researcher's views or interpretations.
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