Qualitative Reasoning and Analysis

Qualitative Reasoning and Analysis

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Qualitative Reasoning and Analysis

Qualitative research generally referred to as multimethod research technique that entails naturalistic, interpretive tactics to its subject matter. It is regarded as multimethod research technique since it can be conducted using five varying research narrative, inquiry techniques that include case study, phenomenological, ethnographic, grounded theory, and participatory action. It is kind of systematic experiential meaning inquiry. In this case, systematic refers to public, ordered, and planned, following regulations agreed on by the qualitative research community members (Ospina, 2004).

Qualitative research entails a naturalistic and interpretive method. This implies that qualitative researcher investigate things in their natural environment trying to interpret, or make sense of phenomena with regards to meanings individuals bring to them. It is holistic in alignment, treating the event as an entire system and looking for patterns situated in its bounds. Phenomena in this case refer to events that are taking place or that took place, and that are being investigated (Mottier, 2005).Qualitative research contains a number of advantages that include flexibility to use unanticipated ideas in research and effectively explore processes, contextual factors sensitivity, aptitude to study social meaning and symbolic, and create new theories and ideas that are empirically supported (Ospina, 2004).

Qualitative research is also said to be deconstructive with regards to disturbing the natural unfolding incidents fabric in the social world. The events flow in daily life is somehow segmented off or stopped and changed into a subject or object of inquiry. Constructivism in this case refers to a situation where meaning is created from a world which is understood and observed by scholars who usually come outside it. It therefore contains the purpose of comprehending the human experience world, proposing that reality is constructed socially. It tends to depend on the views of participants with regard to the studied situation and acknowledges the effect on the research of their own experiences and background (Cupchick, 2001).

References

Cupchick, G. (2001). Constructivist realism: An ontology that encompasses positivist and constructivist approaches to the social sciences. Qualitative Social Research, 2(1). Retrieved from < http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/968/2112>

Mottier, V. (2005). The interpretive turn: history, memory, and storage in qualitative research. Qualitative Social Research, 6(2). Retrieved from < http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/rt/printerFriendly/456/972>

Ospina, S. (2004). Qualitative research. Encyclopedia of Leadership. London: SAGE Publications.