Qualitative research methods

Positivists argue that a researcher's close involvement with research participants results in a lack of ____________

In grounded theory, the ______________ is build on and modified throughout the course of the research.

For _________________, valid data can only be obtained by getting close to people's experiences and meanings.

Positivists argue that ________________________ merely give us a picture of social life as seen through the eyes of the sociologist.

__________________ is particularly useful when studying unfamiliar situations, groups or cultures about which we know little before we start the research.

Functionalists and _______________ argue that participant observation tends to ignore the large-scale structural forces that shape people's behaviour.

_____________________ value documents because they give us access to the author's meanings.

Content analysis is attractive to _________________ because they regard it as producing objective, representative, quantitative data from which generalisations can be made.