HISTORY OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
1920s
Published his study La Ciudad (1925)
Robert E. Park, Ernest W. Burgess y Roderick D. McKenzie
Which contains “both key theoretical expositions and interpretative essays about the cultural patterns of urban life
1960s
The Grounded theory based on a study of staff’s handling of dying patients in hospitals
Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss, American sociologists
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1978s and 1988s
The Journal Qualitative Sociology y la International Journal for Qualitative Studies in Education
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1970s and 1980s
Texts used in educational sociology were also published in Britain.
Qualitative research as a type of inquiry was considered appropriate and respectable in medicine but not wholly accepted as an alternative form of research
1991s
Papers in the field of public health have been published in the Qualitative Health Research, an American medical journal.
In the same way as the USA, a series of articles were published in the British Medical Journal (Mays, 1996; Pope, 1999)
Apart from that, an overview of qualitative concepts and methods was published by the World Health Organisation (Hudelson, 1994).
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2004s and 2005s
Creswell. Plano Clark, Guttman and Hanson propose a mixed design typology.
Tashakkori and Teddlie review the state of the art in this area.
SIGLO XX
It started with a main focus, the quantitative one, and ended with two fundamental approaches: quantitative and qualitative. It is not the case that one replaced the other, but the second was added to the first.
