Andrew: it seems a shame that for all we have done through naturalistic and
authentic inquiry across the past half century or so (and actually since the
Skeptics in Plato's time, and probably at least since Heraclitus in the West) in
tearing down walls and exposing the paucity of positive and objective studies of
the human being--that after all this struggle we should be rebuilding walls and
crafting pigeon holes for our work in qualitative inquiry. Pigeon holes are the
stuff that makes guano merchants wealthy. You are right not to be enslaved to
method (aka doctrine, after I. Kant) in your work. Allow method a proper seat at
your work table, permit it a discernible, but never a decisive voice!
Use whatever methods and techniques that seem to work best for your data (even
positive methods, so long as they are subsumed under an overarching qualitative
framework while investigating the human being) by allowing patterns, comparisons,
contrasts, and explorations to emerge from your dialogue with the data, itself--use
whatever tools you need to facilitate. Just ensure you can explain or describe what
these tools allowed you to do and what they permitted you to see. No more
justification is demanded of you for this.
I am quite averse to allowing our ontology to be reduced to epistemology as Kant
had done--while seeking to Critique Pure Reason, he debased our faculties of
Judgment and Praxis at the expense of Method and Docrtrine. I say, "Never
again!"... ;-} rap.
"Andrew D. KNIGHT(SED)" wrote:
> I was very interested in Philips discussion of the theoretical underpinnings of
> QDA software. I am originally from a positivist background but now I'm
> exploring the value of Nudist from a interpretivist perspective, because I am
> new to the area I often get confused over the terminology used.
...SNIP...
> I also intent to triangulate the research following the Qual analysis with a
> large sample questionnaire,using Likert scales analysed through SPSS. Some
> people appear to have problems with mixing these methods on epistemological
> grounds. Any thought's or references?
>
> Andrew Knight
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