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Qualitative research: meaning and language
Author(s) -
Clarke Liam
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.tb01880.x
Subject(s) - meaning (existential) , subjectivity , attribution , qualitative research , ethnography , interpretation (philosophy) , perception , psychology , social psychology , epistemology , quality (philosophy) , sociology , linguistics , social science , psychotherapist , anthropology , philosophy , neuroscience
Qualitative methodologies, for example those determined by ethnography, are being reported by a growing number of British nurses It is this author's contention that these studies are seriously deficient in areas such as sampling, reliability and, particularly, the attribution of meaning to statements given by interviewees Whilst it is acknowledged that this kind of research is necessary for analyses of inter‐personal relations, it is asserted that such analyses have inadequately dealt with psychological factors of perception and interpretation Although some of these problems may be partially resolved, there remains a requirement that such ethnographies acknowledge the tentative quality of their conclusions given the subjectivity of the methods used