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Qualitative Research
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Qualitative Research

by Maggi Savin-Baden, Claire Howell Major
April 2023
Beginner
608 pages
21h 24m
English
Routledge
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Chapter 3 Research choices and lenses

DOI: 10.4324/9781003377986-4

INTRODUCTION

Researchers face many choices when designing and implementing a study, ranging from who or what to study to where and how they will report the results. The choices researchers make range from complex ones required to frame and design a study to simple ones that involve matters of administrative concern. They may thrive on having a sufficient number of choices, yet at the same time, having too many choices or an ill-defined set of choices can be overwhelming and leave some unable to make a selection necessary to move forward. When researchers do make choices, they do not always do so rationally or even consciously; invariably their final choices stem from their ...

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