Qualitative Research—Unity and Diversity

Abstract: The paper argues that while qualitative research has been flourishing in many fields of the social sciences, it has become unhelpfully fragmented and incoherent. Equally, there have developed a number of specialist domains of qualitative research that are too often treated in isolation. It is argued that we need to return to some fundamental principles of ethnographic inquiry that recognise the multiple modalities of social action and cultural representation, while locating them within a wider ethnographic framework. We need to recognise the intrinsic, indigenous principles of order and organisation that permeate social forms—discursive, visual, and material. Such formal ethnography provides a way of renewing classic ideas such as "grounded theory", "triangulation" and "thick description". URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0503261. https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/4

Location
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Qualitative Research—Unity and Diversity ; volume:6 ; number:3 ; day:30 ; month:09 ; year:2005
Forum qualitative Sozialforschung ; 6, Heft 3 (30.09.2005)

Creator
Atkinson, Paul

DOI
10.17169/fqs-6.3.4
URN
urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0503261
Rights
Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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