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This chapter provides an overview of the philosophical assumptions that underly qualitative research, including the types of logics employed as well as the axiological, epistemological, and ontological perspectives of various designs, methods, and methodologies. Readers new to qualitative inquiry will gain an introductory understanding of the historical forces that enabled qualitative research to develop in response to positivist, quantitative designs in which the researcher was seen as an objective, impartial expert. The chapter centers participants as experts in a qualitative project and describes the specific design rationales and procedures that qualitative researchers employ in order to maintain this focus on participant perspectives.

Author

Eileen Boswell; Wayne A. Babchuk

Publisher

Elsevier Science & Technology Books

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9780128186299