Given below are two statements Statement I: Qualitative research is an…
2020
Given below are two statements
Statement I: Qualitative research is an umbrella term to refer to various research strategies that share certain characteristics.
Statement II: The research-data collected in qualitative research has been termed soft i.e., rich in description of people, places and conversation etc.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.
- A.
Both Statement I and Statement II are true
- B.
Both Statement I and Statement II are false
- C.
Statement I is correct but Statement II is false
- D.
Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is true
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Correct answer: A
Both statements are correct, so the right choice is that Statement I and Statement II are both true.
Statement I is true: "qualitative research" is indeed an umbrella term that covers several distinct strategies (such as ethnography, case study, grounded theory, narrative and phenomenological research) which share a common set of characteristics — a focus on natural settings, the researcher as the key instrument, descriptive data and an inductive, meaning-centred approach.
Statement II is also true: in the classic account by Bogdan and Biklen, the data gathered in qualitative research are described as "soft" — that is, rich in description of people, places and conversations — and are not easily reduced to numbers or handled by statistical procedures.
Since both statements are accurate, the correct answer is that both Statement I and Statement II are true.