Summary
Contents
Subject index
Quality underpins the success (or failure) of any piece of qualitative research. In this book, Uwe Flick takes you through the steps in method and design to ensure quality and reliability throughout the entire research process. Showing hands-on what it means to ‘manage’ quality, this book puts the spotlight on practical questions and steps researchers can use to continually interrogate, improve and demonstrate quality in your research.
Criteria in Qualitative Research
Criteria in Qualitative Research
Chapter objectives
After reading this chapter, you should:
- see the problems and limitations in the attempt to apply traditional criteria to qualitative research;
- know more about suggestions for reformulating these criteria for qualitative research; and
- be familiar with discussions about specific criteria for qualitative research.
As the preceding chapter should have shown, the discussion of standards of or for qualitative research is complicated first by the fact that standards are often imported from a generalist view of empirical research or from a quantitative background. A second complication results from the question of whether these standards should be relevant for all qualitative research approaches or just for one specific understanding of qualitative research. The third source of complication comes from whether standards should be used ...
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