Qualitative Methods - Quick Quiz

This describes your strategy or plan of action. It is the research design that shapes our choice and use of particular methods. (Crotty, 1998)

• Epistemology

• Methodology

• Theoretical Perspectives

• Ontology

• Axiology

The "nature of knowledge, its possibility, scope and general basis". (Crotty, 1998)

• Epistemology

• Methodology

• Theoretical Perspectives

• Ontology

• Axiology

"The study of the ultimately worthwhile things". (Neville, 1989, as cited in Gormley, 2005)

• Epistemology

• Methodology

• Theoretical Perspectives

• Ontology

• Axiology

Describes the philosophical stance that lies behind our chosen methodology. (Crotty, 1998)

• Epistemology

• Methodology

• Theoretical Perspectives

• Ontology

• Axiology

The "study of being". (Crotty, 1998)

"The sciences of being in general, and embraces such issues as the nature of existence..." (Gormley, 2005)

• Epistemology

• Methodology

• Theoretical Perspectives

• Ontology

• Axiology