Ethnographic and qualitative research design and why it doesn't work

Qualitative research methods and analytic procedures are used for solving problems of inquiry in all social science disciplines. Because the results they produce have been subjected to a rather well-entrenched and scathing critique by detractors, they are often approached with caution and treated with contempt by investigators. Most often critics of qualitative research operate from a scientistic or positivistic tradition that has idealized investigative models borrowed from the natural sciences. From this perspective, qualitative research is criticized for not...