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This text, Qualitative Research, includes four chapters that prepare the reader in how this overall approach to research is planned, outlining philosophical assumptions that shape research studies (Chapter One), ethical dilemmas and guidelines for qualitative researchers (Chapter Two), the vital role of inductive grounded theorizing (Chapter Three), and the basic methods and tools used in these investigations (Chapter Four).

Chapters Five through Eight contain explanations of study approaches that are founded in recognized areas of study (discipline-based approaches). These include biography and life story research that examines individuals using biography and psychology as lenses for analyses (Chapter Five); historical research ...

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