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One is the liveliest number: The case orientation of qualitative research
Author(s) -
Sandelowski Margarete
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
research in nursing and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.836
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1098-240X
pISSN - 0160-6891
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1098-240x(199612)19:6<525::aid-nur8>3.0.co;2-q
Subject(s) - nomothetic and idiographic , qualitative research , construct (python library) , orientation (vector space) , epistemology , qualitative property , sample (material) , psychology , sociology , computer science , social psychology , mathematics , social science , philosophy , chemistry , geometry , chromatography , machine learning , programming language
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 analysts 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. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.