This article examines five common misunderstandings about case-study research:
(a) theoretical knowledge is more valuable than practical knowledge; (b) one
cannot generalize from a single case, therefore, the single-case study cannot
contribute to scientific development; (c) the case study is most useful for
generating hypotheses, whereas other methods are more suitable for hypotheses
testing and ... hiện toàn bộ
With full awareness that criteria are mutable, the author argues that
ethnography needs to be evaluated through two lenses: science and arts. The
author suggests five criteria: substantive contribution, aesthetic merit,
reflexivity, impact, and expression of a reality.
The purpose of this article is to throw into radical doubt the
material-discursive practices of recording devices (e.g., tape and digital
recorders) used in qualitative interviews. To do this work, I first present a
Baradian diffractive reading, a reading across epistemological and ontological
differences that matter, of recording devices in qualitative research. I explore
how recording devices ha... hiện toàn bộ
We need new ways of making the everyday world visible through disruptive
empirical methodologies that privilege social justice and utopian acts of
critical imagination.
Hongming Fan, Bingqing Li, Truly Pasaribu, Raqib Chowdhury
Worldwide travel restrictions during the Covid-19 pandemic abruptly changed the
norms of conducting qualitative research. Online interviews, long regarded as a
second choice to their offline counterparts, are no longer seen as supplementary
since they emerged as the dominant mode of data collection during the pandemic.
This study employs an autoethnographic approach to investigate the authors’
exp... hiện toàn bộ