Abstract
The epistemological thrust of qualitative research is case oriented. Regardless of qualitative methodology or sample size, qualitative research is quintessentially about understanding a particular in the all-together. Regardless of the kind of analytic technique employed, qualitative analysis are obliged, first and foremost, to make sense of individual cases. Looking at and through each case in a qualitative project is the basis from which researchers may make idiographic generalizations and move to cross-case comparisons to construct aggregations, syntheses, or interpretations of data from and faithful to individual cases.
Keywords
Nomothetic and idiographicQualitative researchConstruct (python library)Orientation (vector space)EpistemologyQualitative propertySample (material)PsychologySociologyComputer scienceSocial psychologyMathematicsSocial sciencePhilosophy
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Case-Control StudiesClinical Nursing ResearchHumansKnowledge
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- 19
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- 6
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- 525-529
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Margarete Sandelowski
(1996).
One is the liveliest number: The case orientation of qualitative research.
Research in Nursing & Health
, 19
(6)
, 525-529.
https://doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1098-240x(199612)19:6<525::aid-nur8>3.0.co;2-q
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- DOI
- 10.1002/(sici)1098-240x(199612)19:6<525::aid-nur8>3.0.co;2-q
- PMID
- 8948406