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TYPES OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH

A qualitative approach that studies the cultural patterns and perspectives of participants in their natural
settings.

To describe, analyze, and interpret the culture of a group over time to understand the group's shared
beliefs, behaviors, and language.

GROUNDED THEORY

A grounded theory design is a set of procedures used to generate systematically a theory that explains,
at a broad conceptual level, a process about a substantive topic.

CASE STUDY

"A case is a factual description of events that actually happened at some point in the past.....It is
designed to elicit discussion and analysis of a particular situation."

DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Discourse analysis study the ways sentences and utterances (speech) go together to make texts and
interactions and how those texts and interactions fit into our social world.

It should be noticed also that discourse analysis is not just the study of language, but a way of looking at
language as well.

PHENOMENOLOGY

A philosophy or method of inquiry based on the premise that reality consists of objects and events as
they are perceived or understood in human consciousness and not of anything independent of human
consciousness.

HISTORICAL RESEARCH

Wiersma (1986) defines historical research in this way, it is a process of critical inquiry into past events,
in order to produce an accurate description and interpretation of those events.

NARRATIVE REPORT

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