Professional Documents
Culture Documents
1.RESEARCH DESIGN
Resear Design is obtaining satisfactory evidence for a
research problem
It answer the question ‘’what type of evidence is required
for the problem?’
Bfore collecting evidence it is important to design the
nature of evidence required.
2. POSITIVIST RESEARCH
Gives validity and objectivity to a research
It is based on precise methods and can support a research
with statistical and objective data
Lack of depth understanding of a context
3.INTERPRETIVE RESEARCH
Intepretive Research focuses on identifying, documenting
and knowing through interpretation of: world views
values,beliefs,thoughts and the general characteristics of
life evnets, situations,ceremonies and specific phonemena
under investigation.
4.CASE STUDY
a process or record of research in which detailed
consideration is given to the development of a particular
person, group, or situation over a period of time.
a particular instance of something used or analyzed in order
to illustrate a thesis or principle.
"airline deregulation provides a case study of the effects of the
internal market"
5. ACTION RESEARCH
Action research is inquiry or research in the context of focused
efforts to improve the quality of an organization and its
performance.
It typically is designed and conducted by practitioners who analyze
the data to improve their own practice
Action research can be done by individuals or by teams of
colleagues.
6. ETHNOGRAPHY
Ethnography is the systematic study of people and cultures
It is designed to explore cultural phenomena where the researcher
observes society from the point of view of the subject of the study.
An ethnography is a means to represent graphically and in writing
the culture of a group
7.PHENOMENOLOGY
Phenomenology is the philosophical study of the structures of
experience and consciousness
As a philosophical movement it was founded in the early years of
the 20th century by Edmund Husserl and was later expanded upon
by a circle of his followers at the universities of Göttingen and
Munich in Germany.
8.GROUNDED THEORY
Grounded theory is a systematic methodology in the social
sciences involving the construction of theories through methodical
gathering and analysis of data.
This research methodology uses inductive reasoning, in contrast to
the hypothetico-deductive model model of the scientific method