Designing a Qualitative Study - SAGE Publications Inc

423 Designing a Qualitative StudyIthink metaphorically of Qualitative research as an intricate fabric com-posed of minute threads, many colors, different textures, and various blends of material. This fabric is not explained easily or simply. Like the loom on which fabric is woven, general assumptions and interpretive frameworks hold Qualitative research together. To describe these frame-works, Qualitative researchers use terms constructivist, interpretivist, feminist, postmodernist, and so forth. Within these assumptions and through these frameworks are approaches to Qualitative inquiry, such as narrative research, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, and case studies.

ers use an emerging qualitative approach to inquiry, the collection of data in a natural setting sensitive to the people and places under study, and data analysis that is both inductive and deductive and establishes patterns or themes. The final written report or presenta-tion includes the voices of participants, the reflexivity of the

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