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“ Engendering Borderlands Research”
1. Qualitative Inquiry
Qualitative research is concerned with offering
specialized techniques for obtaining in depth
responses about what people think, do and feel.
It covers the realms of observation (especially
ethnography, texts specially analyzing documents
using textual analysis, interviews, audio and video
discourse analysis, conversation analysis, and
analysis of face to face interactions for gender
research), validation and aesthetics of research.
Qualitative Quantitative
Provides in-depth Measures level of
understanding occurrences
Asks ‘why’? Asks ‘How many’? “How
often’?
Studies motivations Studies actions
Enables discovery Provides Proof
Is Personal Is anonymous
Is exploratory Is definitive
Allows insights into Measure levels of actions,
Behavior trends, and so on trends, and so on
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Then use qualitative research, which, in most
cases produces more insight and- depth
information.
Triangulation, which constitutes a popular
development in Social Science research
methodology. The structure and the extent of
social phenomena call for the application of both
of these parameters.
However, depending on the problems under
consideration, either the qualitative or
quantitative aspects will play a larger role.
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The Basis of Gender/Feminist Research
The emerging thinking on the methodological
guidelines or postulates for feminist research are the
followings:
Promote conscious partiality in research, as opposed to
value-free research