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Method slurring: the grounded theory/phenomenology example
Author(s) -
Baker Cynthia,
Wuest Judith,
Stern Phyllis Noerager
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1992.tb01859.x
Subject(s) - rigour , phenomenology (philosophy) , grounded theory , qualitative research , nursing research , epistemology , psychology , qualitative analysis , lived experience , nursing theory , psychotherapist , medicine , medline , nursing , sociology , philosophy , social science , political science , law
Increasingly, qualitative research methods are being embraced by nurse researchers because these approaches allow exploration of human experience Failure to explicate qualitative methodologies is resulting in a body of nursing research that is either mislabelled or is classified broadly as qualitative and subject to charges that qualitative research lacks rigour In this paper, the authors discuss the importance of specificity in methodology and distinguish between phenomenology and grounded theory, two frequently misused terms in the description of qualitative methodology