Types of Qualitative Research

Types of Qualitative Research

 

1. Case Study

• exploration of a “bounded system”
• Find answers to why such things occur to the subject
• detailed, in-depth data collection involving multiple sources of information rich in context

Sample titles:

Cultural influences on the social network marketing effectiveness : A case Study in Thailand

Gender Differences Within Academia : A case study on the probability of promotion

Case Study on male prostitution in Cebu City

2. Phenomenology

• the essences of structures of the experience (Moustakas, 1994)
• Describes the meaning of the lived experience (sensory experience)
• Make people understand their experiences

Sample titles:

AN INDEPTH EXPLORATION INTO THE SEXUAL EXPERIENCES OF PEOPLE WITH A MILD OR MODERATE INTELLECTUAL DISABILTY.

NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES AMONG CRTITICAL PATIENTS : A PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS

3. Ethnography

• A description and interpretation of a cultural or social group or system.  The researcher examines the group’s observable and learned patterns of behavior, customs, and ways of life.
• Involves prolonged observation of the group, typically through participant observation. 

Sample title:

Child rearing practices of Manobo Tribe: A close encounter

4. Grounded Theory

The intent of grounded theory is to generate or discover a theory that relates to a particular situation.  If little is known about a topic, grounded theory is especially useful

5. Biographical Study

The study of an individual and her or his experiences as told to the researcher or found in documents and archival material

Sample Titles:

Student Life of Jose Rizal: A Documentary

Who is Lapu-Lapu?: A closer look to a brave hero

6. Historical Analysis

• A process of critical inquiry into past events in order to produce an accurate description and interpretation of those events (Wiersma, 1986)
• Examination of primary documents to make one understand the connection of past events to present time. The results of the content analysis will help you specify phenomenological changes of unchanged aspects of society through years.

Sample Titles:

Digging Through Dust: Historiography for the Organizational Sciences

The Old Historiography in New China:the Modern Positivism in the Historiography of RPC (1949-1965)

7. Content and Discourse Analysis

• A method that requires analysis or examination of the substance or content of the mode of communication such as letters, books, journals, photos, video recordings, sms, online messages, emails, audio-visual materials, etc.
• It is a study of language structures used in the medium of communication to discover the effects of sociological, cultural, institutional, and ideological factors on the content

References:

Practical Research 1 - Esther L. Baraceros