Sociology

This week you were introduced to the practice of qualitative research by reading three contemporary examples. Your assignment this week is to reflect and analyze the methodological approaches of these three researchers in the form of an analytic memo.

This assignment should be approximately 5 paragraphs and should NOT be a summary of the works. Instead, focus your discussion and analysis specifically on the methodological approaches of these researchers. Some questions to get you thinking:
What do these approaches have in common and how are they different?

Why are the research questions at the heart of each of these pieces best answered through a qualitative approach?

What are the strengths and weaknesses of the researchers methodological approaches?

What do these works reveal about qualitative work?