Introducing Qualitative Hypothesis-Generating …

1 Introducing QualitativeHypothesis-Generating ResearchThe Yeshiva University Fatherhood ProjectRESEARCH BEGINS WITH CURIOSITY about the world. We assumethat you are reading this book because you find a particular phenomenoninteresting and want to understand it better. For example, you may havequestions about trauma, or fathering, or divorce, or immigration, to listsome of the topics that our research team has studied. This book will teachyou how to use a very powerful research method, Qualitative research, toanswer your questions and learn more about your field of Qualitative research is quite diverse. Some methodologiesincluded in this approach are: participant observation, fieldwork, ethnog-raphy, unstructured interviews, life histories, textual analysis, discourseanalysis, and critical cultural history, and this list is by no means our purpose, Qualitative research can be defined as follows: Qualitative research is research that involves analyzing and interpreting textsand interviews in order to discover meaningful patterns descriptive of a par-ticular Qualitative approach to research design leads to studies that arequite differ

The qualitative approach to research design leads to studies that are quite different from those designed using the more traditional approach. The traditional approach, often referred to as quantitative research,leads to hypothesis-testing research, whereas the qualitative approach leads to hypothesis-generating research. This chapter will …

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