Grounded Theory and Ethnographic Research
The three types of qualitative research are phenomenological, grounded theory, and ethnographic research. Compare the differences and similarities between two of the three types of qualitative studies and give an example of each.
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Ethnographic research is a research methodology which involves the real-time study of other peoples culture where the researcher goes to live with the subjects under study so that they can observe from the people’s point of view. Grounded research theory is research methodology whereby the researcher generates theory from data. The theory is generated after the data is collected and analyzed (Aldiabat & Navenec, 2011).
One similarity is that in both studies, the researchers present the information from the participant’s point of view. Also, both research methods involve the analysis of unstructured information, and this can be quite difficult, especially…
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