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Sukanya Das, Lovely Professional University Unit-24: Methodological Dilemmas and Issues in Qualitative Research

Unit-24: Methodological Dilemmas and Issues in notes

Qualitative Research

CoNteNts
objectives
introduction
24.1 the Complexity of social Phenomena

24.2 subjectivity and intangibility of social Phenomena
24.3 Qualitativeness of social Phenomena
24.4 Lack of Homogeneity
24.5 Lack of Universality in social Phenomena
24.6 Dynamic Nature of social Phenomena
24.7 Unpredictability of social Phenomena
24.8 summary

24.9 Keywords
24.10 review Questions
24.11 further readings

objectives

After studying this unit students will be able to:
y Get information on methodological dilemmas in qualitative research
y Understand the problems in social incidents.

introduction

it is true that social incidents and natural incidents are not of same nature, there are some fundamental
differences. for example, in a particular variety of mango tree all the trees would have same specialities
but this would not be true for a group of teachers. We can definitely say that the order of seasons
would behave in a definite manner but we cannot be sure of the behaviour of students during the
college elections. it can never happen that we get sunlight at night, but it may be possible that a mother
murders her own child. social incidents are full of such weird, bizarre and different incidents.

24.1 The Complexity of Social Phenomena
one noteworthy speciality of social phenomena is their complexity. Lundberg writes that possibly
the most noteworthy difficulty in a practical science—Human-group-behaviour is the complexity of

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