Data collecting methods
Research Designs
Assumptions
100

collects information from on a group of people from similar background

Focus groups

100
The nature of reality

Ontological

200

Research design mostly used in social sciences

Ethnography

300

In this type of observation, the researcher actually joins the group

Participant

300

Literary form of qualitative research design

Narrative

300

The roles of values in research

Axiological

400

Collecting data by watching and listening in a meaningful way

Observing

500

Three types of interview

structured

semi-structured 

unstructured

500

Research design that focuses on the lived experience within a particular group

Phenomenology

500

How people interpret and react to their environment

Symbolic Interactionism

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