Hi all
I was wondering if anyone else has reservations about the use of the term
haphazard sampling to describe sampling strategies used in qualitative
reserach. It strikes me that even if one is sympathetic with the idea that
qual strategies are not respresentative (which I am) the last thing that
they are is haphazard - is this a form of epistemological superority? All
qual research has to carefully plan and uncover key actors and contacts to
generate data which makes the term seem something of a hangover from a time
when quant methods were seen as having all the answers.
Im intersted in what others think,
cheers
Rowland
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