Qualitative models describe structure and metamorphoses among things or events or among properties of things or events. Sociologists have several ways of formulating qualitative models. Qualitative modeling based on logic involves the following ideas....

In psychology, qualitative research has come to be defined as research whose findings are not arrived at by statistical or other quantitative procedures. Qualitative research has been outlawed by mainstream scientific psychology, claiming that this kind...

Abstract A study is presented on the rise of qualitative research in psychology over the 20th century. The incidence of qualitative research as indicated by several search terms (i.e., "qualitative research," "grounded theory," "discourse analy*," "empirical phenomenological," and "phenomenological psychology") was traced through...

By P. Banister, E. Burman, I. Parker, M. Taylor & C. Tindall. Buckingham: Open University Press. 1994. Pp. vii + 184. Cased, [pounds]37.50. Paper, [pounds]13.99. Most occupational and organizational psychologists favour quantitative research designs which make use of psychometric tests generating statistical...