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Publication Date: 2012-Aug
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Thinking about the Nature and Scope of Qualitative Research
LaRossa, Ralph
Journal of Marriage and Family, v74 n4 p678-687 Aug 2012
In "Writing and Reviewing Manuscripts in the Multidimensional World of Qualitative Research" (LaRossa, 2012), the author expressed the hope that, by sketching a cognitive map of the writing and reviewing process, authors and reviewers for the "Journal of Marriage and Family" ("JMF") would be better able to communicate with each other about the location of qualitative manuscripts on a humanities--sciences continuum ("latitude"), length-and-number-of-data-excerpts continuum ("longitude"), and level-of-theorizing continuum ("altitude"). The three-dimensional navigational system was intended to describe some of the ways that scholars think about research and offer a template to help frame questions about what constitutes good qualitative work. The author appreciates the remarks that Lareau (2012), Matthews (2012), and Roy (2012) provided. Although there is some overlap in the issues that Lareau, Matthews, and Roy raised, what the author found interesting were the particular issues on which each chose to focus. The author thus organizes his reply by commentator: starting with Roy, moving to Matthews, and ending with Lareau. He recommends that scholars come together to have a larger conversation about the qualitative-research culture of "JMF" and the culture of qualitative family research overall. (Contains 1 note.)
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Qualitative Research, Cognitive Mapping, Humanities, Sciences, Predictor Variables, Hypothesis Testing, Publications
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