Qualitative research methods

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

In grounded theory, the (a)   is build on and modified throughout the course of the research.

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

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

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

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

(a)   value documents because they give us access to the author's meanings.

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