Conceptual Framework

39 Biologist Bernd Heinrich (1984, pp. 141 151) and his associates once spent a summer conducting detailed, systematic research on ant lions, small insects that trap ants in pits they have dug. Returning to the university in the fall, Heinrich was surprised to dis-cover that his results were quite different from those published by other researchers. Redoing his experiments the following summer to try to understand these discrepan-cies, Heinrich found that he and his fellow researchers had been led astray by an unex-amined assumption they had made about the ant lions time frame: Their observations hadn t been long enough to detect some key aspects of these insects behavior.

queer theory, and phenomenology, and there are even more specific traditions within these. It is well beyond the scope of this book to describe these paradigms and how they can inform a qualitative study; useful discussions of these issues can be found in Creswell (2006) and Schram (2003); the SAGE Encyclopedia of Qualitative

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