Qualitative Research Design: Grounded Theory Strengths and Challenges
Discover the strengths and challenges of grounded theory as a qualitative research design. Explore its benefits, including fostering creativity and allowing intensive engagement with data while also facing challenges like time consumption and vulnerability to errors.
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QUALITATIVE RESEARCH DESIGNS
GROUNDED THEORY: STRENGTHS AND CHALLENGES Strengths Fosters creativity-the researcher is not confined to testing preconceived hypothesis, but rather explores empirical data to identify associations Has a systematic data analysis protocol It is instinctive-this design allows intensive engagement with the data Allows researchers to conceptualize-researcher can generate valid concepts from data (El Hussein et al. 2014) Challenges Time consuming-open data coding is laborious and exhaustive Vulnerable to methodological errors-complexity of this approach exposes novice researchers to an array of technical errors (Pulla, 2016) Has numerous approaches
CASE STUDIES: STRENGTHS AND CHALLENGES Strengths Accuracy in relating theory to practice-this approach allows researchers to evaluate associations between theory and practice Efficient in hypothesis formulation- case studies lead to identification of unanticipated information Discloses pertinent correlations- intensive analysis of a case allows the researcher to unearth crucial details Challenges Lack of rigor-reliability and internal validity are questionable (Lock and Seele, 2018) Potential of collecting useless data-researcher may collect vast quantities of data of minimal scientific value (Crowe et al. 2011) Conceptualizing an inappropriate case
BENEFITS OF THE RESEARCH DESIGNS Both research methodologies are guided by a scientific framework and lead to the collection of comprehensive data on the subject These designs have a prescribed approach for data analysis which ensures that the gathered data is critically and accurately analyzed to give valid and reliable information The designs confer some degree of freedom to the researcher, which creates room for creativity and exploration of instinctive ideologies, which may not be particularly compatible with other designs Researcher bias is minimal in these designs which fosters reliability of research findings and the generalization of the findings Importantly, these study designs allow the researcher to capture the actual state of events regardless of their research prowess
SELECTED QUALITATIVE RESEARCH DESIGN Grounded theory is a design marked with a logical procedure of analyzing data The design engages inductive reasoning Research framed by this designs may start in the form of the question It may also begin with some sets of qualitative data Researchers utilize codes to tag data they have collected
GROUNDED THEORY GENERAL PRINCIPLES, TENETS, TRADITIONS, AND PARADIGMATIC PERSPECTIVES It encompasses various traditions in positivism and sociology Its principle stresses on the significance of social engagement Based on the design, human beings can interpret the world by using symbols One will realize the behaviors of human beings based on the symbols The researcher will learn about the world by interpreting the human engagements
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