human understanding and interpretation - shows individual's mental, social, and spiritual understanding of the world. ( his/her values, beliefs)
active, powerful, and forceful - a lot of changes occur continuously
multipleresearchapproaches and methods - being a multi method research ( descriptive, exploratory, explanatory, case study. etc )
specificity to generalization - it follows an inductive or scientific method
contextualization - involves all variables, factors, or conditions affecting the study ( study of the situation of the individual )
diversified data in real-life situations - prefers collecting data in a natural setting like observing people as they lived and work
abounds with words and visuals - analysis result is done verbally
internal analysis- examine the data yielded by the internal traits of the subjects individuals ( emotions, mental, spiritual characteristics)
Case study - takes place in the field of social care, nursing, psychology, rehabilitation centers, education, etc ( a long time study of a person, group, organization, or situations )
Ethnography - a particular group reveals the nature or characteristic of their own culture through the world. perceptions of the cultural group's members ( not all about tribes, culture )
Phenomenology - the study of how people find their experiences meaningful \
content and discourse analysis- examinations of the substance or content of the more of communication
historical analysis - primary documents to make you understand the connection of past events to the present time
Grounded Theory - discover new theory while undergoing data collection
Quantitative Research - uses numbers and statistics to analyze information
Qualitative research is used when we want to know what people think, feel, believe, do, say, and why they act that way.
Qualitative research - focuses on words and meanings rather than numbers
Observational - observations or observe and record the data. ( without telling the participant what to do )
statistics - branch applied in mathematics that involves collecting, describing, analyzing
non experimental - non involvement of any kind of treatment or not changes the conditioned ( only do in natural settings )
experimental - involvement of treatment manipulates the changes
survey - when the data is being collected by people