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2 11 INTRODUCTIONThe Discipline and Practice of Qualitative ResearchNorman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. LincolnThe global community of qualitative researchers is mid-way between two extremes, searching for a new middle, moving in several different directions at the same Mixed methodologies and calls for scientifically based research, on the one side, renewed calls for social justice inquiry from the critical social science tradition on the other. In the method-ological struggles of the 1970s and 1980s, the very existence of qualitative research was at issue. In the new paradigm war, every overtly social justice-oriented approach to research .. is threatened with de-legitimization by the government-sanctioned, exclusivist assertion of positivism.

ance of postpositivist arguments. At the same time, a variety of new interpretive, qualitative perspectives were taken up, includ - ing hermeneutics, structuralism, semiotics, phenomenology, cultural studies, and feminism.9 In the blurred genre phase, the humanities became central resources for critical, interpretive Qualitative research

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