Quantitative Research: The Objectives Of Qualitative Methodology

The objectives of qualitative methodology are derived from the rationale that both qualitative and quantitative researchers show anxiety in regards to the construction of solid theory as a positive outcome. Energies are engaged to systematically develop theory, but the two approach to the research task is different. The qualitative researcher 's emphasis is on the construction of the theory to agree with data, and the quantitative researcher 's emphasis is on the testing of the theory to prove. The difference in approach may, in part, be due to the differences in the phenomena being studied, and the questions asked and the techniques considered appropriate for confirming or refuting the conjecture (Morse, 1996). Qualitative research requires methodological versatility; researchers have to create the knowledge fitting their research group through any of numerous strategies that depends on design, and therefore have an extensive knowledge of social science theory, to interact competently with others, and persistently focus on objective, and single-mindedly commit to research. He/she, the researcher must constantly distinguish between another 's world and that of the participant researcher, and yet become close enough to the lives of another that it be both experienced and analyzed (ibid).

Qualitative Research, as is now made distinct, sets its objective as the gathering of mainly verbal data rather than measurements. The information gathered is analyzed in an