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Interpretive Research - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Third, interpretive analysis is holistic and contextual, rather than being reductionist and isolationist.
        
        Lastly, data collection and analysis can proceed simultaneously and iteratively in interpretive research.
- - - - Third, they are also appropriate for studying context-specific, unique, or idiosyncratic events or processes.
        
        Fourth, interpretive research can also help uncover interesting and relevant research questions and issues for follow-up research.
        
        At the same time, interpretive research also has its own set of challenges. First, this type of research tends to be more time and resource intensive than positivist research in data collection and analytic efforts.
        
        Second, interpretive research requires well-trained researchers who are capable of seeing and interpreting complex social phenomenon from the perspectives of the embedded participants and reconciling the diverse perspectives of these participants, without injecting their personal biases or preconceptions into their inferences.
        
        Third, all participants or data sources may not be equally credible, unbiased, or knowledgeable about the phenomenon of interest, or may have undisclosed political agendas, which may lead to misleading or false impressions.
- - - - A third technique is documentation, where external and internal documents, such as memos, electronic mails, annual reports, financial statements, newspaper articles, websites, may be used to cast further insight into the phenomenon of interest or to corroborate other forms of evidence.
- - - - The ethnographic research method, derived largely from the field of anthropology, emphasizes studying a phenomenon within the context of its culture.
        
        Phenomenology is a research method that emphasizes the study of conscious experiences as a way of understanding the reality around us.