2. What is it?
✘ Wanting to find out the respondents’ views in mental,
social, and spiritual aspect.
✘ Soft Science
✘ Prone to subjectivity
✘ Things are studied in their natural setting.
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3. Giving you more concepts about
Qualitative Research
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CHARACTERISTICS OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
5. Human Understanding & Interpretation
✘ Data analysis results show an individual’s
mental, social, and spiritual understanding of
the world.
✘ We will be able to find out the individuals whole
being.
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7. Active, Powerful, and Forceful
✘ Looking for other ways in achieving one’s goal
✘ Along the research process, you tend to find
for ways to amend questions and consider
varied ways of getting answers.
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9. Multiple Research Approaches and Methods
✘ Allows you to approach or plan your study in
varied ways.
✘ Multi-method research
✘ Free to combine Quantitative Research
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11. Specificity to Generalization
✘ Specific details lead to generalization
✘ From small to big
✘ Specific ideas are directed to a general
understanding of something.
✘ Inductive Method
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13. Contextualization
✘ Your goal is to understand human behaviour.
✘ Involves all variables, factors, or conditions
affecting the study.
✘ It is crucial to understand the
CONTEXT/SITUATION of an individual’s life
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17. Abounds with Words and Visuals
✘ Words come in big quantity
✘ Data gathering and presentation is done
verbally
✘ Quotations, pictures, and videos
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19. Internal Analysis
✘ You study people’s perception about your
topic, not the effects of their physical existence
on your study.
✘ In books: investigation centers on underlying
theories or principles that govern these
materials and their usefulness to people.
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