Qualitative Researches In Social Sciences

Qualitative social science research is fundamentally embedded in grounded theory concerned with how the social world is interpreted, realized, understood and experienced, or produced. Qualitative investigation seeks answers to their questions in the realistic world. They congregate what they see, hear and read from the people and places and from events and activities and their main purpose are to learn about some aspects of the social world and to generate new understandings that can be used by that social world. The main objective of this study is the interpretation of social world especially of cultures and people’s life-ways rather than seeking causal explanations for social-cultural practices. Nevertheless, in very rapidly changing information dominated globalized world, innovative traditions of the perception of emerging local and global contexts and realities need to be exposed and accepted as well as practiced in qualitative social science research. Janapriya Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, Vol. III (December 2014), page: 54-61

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Towards equality: joining forces with arts and culture in the struggle for change in migration societies

Comparative Migration Studies ◽

10.1186/s40878-021-00249-x ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Wiebke Sievers

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Social Science ◽

Cultural Practices ◽

Social Science Research ◽

Science Research ◽

Process Of Change ◽

Migration Research ◽

The Arts ◽

The Social ◽

Arts And Culture

AbstractThere is a tendency in migration research to view artistic and cultural practices of immigrants and their descendants as well as the research of such practices as less relevant for our understanding of migration. This explains why it has long been a neglected area of research in the social sciences, as Marco Martiniello explains in his contribution to this volume. The present article argues that drawing such boundaries prevents us from seeing the joint aims not only of migration research in the social sciences and the humanities, but also of this research and the arts. It prevents us from seeing the potential of joining forces in our struggle for change towards more equal societies. The article explains how social science research and artistic and cultural practices can be regarded as two supplementary methods of struggling for equality that together have a greater chance of reaching this aim. Artistic and cultural practices contribute perspectives for changing community narratives to this process of change. These are essential for political and social change as they are championed in the social sciences.

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Interpretivist Tradition in Qualitative Anthropological Research Writings

Himalayan Journal of Sociology and Anthropology ◽

10.3126/hjsa.v5i0.7044 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 5 ◽

pp. 123-137

Author(s):

Prakash Upadhyay

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Research ◽

Cultural Practices ◽

Scientific Paper ◽

Social World ◽

Causal Explanations ◽

Faith Based ◽

The People ◽

Anthropological Study ◽

The Social ◽

Anthropological Research

Stranded in a philosophical position, qualitative research is fundamentally “Interpretivist” in the sense that it is concerned with how the social world is realized, interpreted, understood and experienced, or produced. Qualitative investigation based researches rummage around for answers to their questions in the realistic world. They congregate what they see, hear and read from the people and places and from events and activities and their main purposes are to learn about some aspects of the social world and to generate new understandings that can be used by that social world. Anthropological qualitative research is about the interpretation of social world especially of cultures and people’s life-ways rather than seeking causal explanations for cultural practices. In anthropological writings as much attempt and consideration should be given to the organization of the scientific paper and article as was given to the execution of the anthropological study, the writer should employ assorted techniques to make the belief, faith based qualitative anthropological study more and more empirical.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/hjsa.v5i0.7044 Himalayan Journal of Sociology & Anthropology-Vol. V (2012) 123-137

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Logical Constraints: The Limitations of QCA in Social Science Research

Political Analysis ◽

10.1017/pan.2020.7 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 28 (4) ◽

pp. 552-568

Author(s):

Kevin A. Clarke

Keyword(s):

Comparative Analysis ◽

Social Science ◽

Boolean Algebra ◽

Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽

Social Science Research ◽

Science Research ◽

Social World ◽

Logical Language ◽

The Social ◽

Logical Constraints

Researchers employing qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) and its variants use two-element Boolean algebra to compare cases and identify putative causal conditions. I show that the two-element Boolean algebra constrains research in three important ways: it restricts what we can say about sets and the interactions between sets, it embodies a logical language that is too weak to capture modern social science theories, and it restricts our analysis of causation to necessity and sufficiency accounts and does not allow for counterfactuals. Modern quantitative analysis suffers none of these restrictions and provides a much richer way to understand the social world.

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