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Room C203
Sunday, June 28, 2020
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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Giving Voice to Participants: Case Studies of Qualitative Research | Balcazar


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Dr Fabricio Balcazar
University Of Illinois At Chicago

Giving Voice to Participants: Case Studies of Qualitative Research

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Abstract

The popularity of Qualitative Research has increased as many researchers believe that the social sciences have depended too much on sterile survey techniques, regardless of whether the technology is appropriate for the problem or not. Although qualitative research methods have often been characterized as non-scientific, it turns out that both quantitative and qualitative researchers are doing science, provided that science is defined as a specific and systematic way of discovering and understanding how social realities arise, operate, and impact on individuals and organizations of individuals. According to Berg (2001), qualitative research properly seeks answers to questions by examining various social settings and the individuals who inhabit these settings. Qualitative researchers, then, are most interested in how humans arrange themselves and their settings and how inhabitants of these settings make sense of their surroundings through social structures, social roles, and so forth.

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