Research paradigms and meaning making

They do not assume that there is a single unitary realityapart from our perceptions.

Differentphenomena may require the use of different methodologies. Qualitative data analysis provides a method forcategorizing and organizing the subtleties of everyday social phenomena in a meaningfulway.

Typifications are never verbalized by respondents but created by the researcher togive meaning to the wide range of data they house.

This required the use of mixed methods.

ReferencesAl Zeera, Z. A hierarchy-based punctuated-equilibrium model of the process of emergence and change of new rural industries. Fourth, the task of constructing meaning throughqualitative data analysis was described citing a variety of perspectives and approaches.

Churchland, P.