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Kirk and Miller define what is -- and what is not -- qualitative research. They suggest that the use of numbers in the process of recording and analyzing observations is less important than that the research should involve sustained interaction with the people being studied, in their own language and on their own turf. Following a chapter on objectivity, the authors discuss the role of reliability and validity and the problems that arise when these issues are neglected. They present a paradigm for the qualitative research process that makes it possible to pursue validity without neglecting reliability.
Toward Theoretical Validity
Toward Theoretical Validity
Qualitative research finds its formal and intertwined roots in the traditions of cultural anthropology and American sociology. Implicitly oriented to the question of validity, generations of field researchers have for over a hundred years worked and reworked the particulars of ethnographic inquiry. This has ...
