What is Qualitative Research?

1. FAQ

1.1. What is it?

1.2. Where did it come from?

1.3. How is it different?

2. Qualitative research methods

2.1. Ethnography

2.2. Autoethnography

2.3. Case study

2.4. Document analysis

2.5. Interview study

2.6. Narrative inquiry

2.7. Phenomenological study

2.8. Grounded theory

3. Purposes of qualitative research

3.1. Understand

3.1.1. Interpretivism

3.1.2. Ethnography

3.1.3. Phenomenology

3.2. Interrogate

3.2.1. Feminism

3.2.2. Marxism

3.2.3. Critical theory

3.3. Deconstruct

3.3.1. Postcolonial

3.3.2. Poststructural

3.3.3. Diaspora

4. Epistemology

4.1. Positivism

4.2. Post-positivism

4.3. Constructionism

5. Dollar words

5.1. subject

5.2. objective

5.3. generalizability

5.4. validity

5.5. reliability

5.6. truth

5.7. fact

5.8. reality

5.9. bias

6. About this map

6.1. Authors

6.2. Purpose

6.3. License

6.4. About mind maps

7. References

7.1. Bhattacharya, K. (2007)

7.2. Creswell, J.W. (2007)

7.3. Crotty, M. (1998)

8. Organizations

8.1. ACR: Association for Qualitative Research

8.2. QRCA: Qualitative Research Consultants Association

8.3. QRAC: Qualitative Research Advancement Congress

8.3.1. QRAC web site

8.3.2. QRAC lending library