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Qualitative Research

Talking about qualitative research means talking about research methodology which including philosophical view on disciplined inquiry and reality from studied object inside social and behavior science; not just only talking about technical aspect of research methodology in a research process.
As a research method, qualitative research is known with few names and labels in sciences,. Anthropologist named ethnography to qualitative approach that they used; on the other hand, sociologist called it with verstehen or participant observation, psychologist, linguist and many other science use names like case study, interpretive inquiry, natural inquiry, and phenomenology as a title for its qualitative approach.
The characteristic of of qualitative research :
1. Data gathering performed in a natural way
2. Researcher is the main instrument in collecting and interpreting data
3. Mostly, qualitative research is full with description
4. Even if qualitative research seldom pay attention to result and consequences of many variables that forming simultaneously, but more common in researching the process
5. Mostly qualitative research using inductive analysis, mainly in its beginning
6. Meaning behind human behavior is an essential thing as a qualitative research
7. Qualitative research demanding as much as it can to the researcher to do the research independently
8. In a qualitative research there ‘s a triangulation activity that carried extensively, including method triangulation, data source triangulation, and surveyor triangulation
9. Studied people counted as participant
10. Participant is very respected in a qualitative research
11. In a qualitative research, result rarely become final, as long as there’s no contrary evidence
12. Sample taking carried out with rational purposive method
13. Quantitative data and qualitative data in a qualitative research are both used

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