El investigador social es un artífice. — Los investigadores sociales son flexibles en el modo en que intentan conducir sus investigaciones. Es alentado a crear su propio método. Sigue orientaciones, no reglas.

En los estudios cualitativos los investigadores siguen un diseño de la investigación flexible. Comienzan sus estudios con interrogantes sólo vagamente formulados.

"metodología cualitativa se refiere en su más amplio sentido a la investigación que produce datos descriptivos: las propias palabras de las personas, habladas o escritas, y la conducta observable"

En la metodología cualitativa el investigador ve al escenario y a las personas en una perspectiva holística

Investigadores sociales son naturalistas:

Perspectiva fenomenológica

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Para el investigador cualitativo, todas las perspectivas son valiosas.

Los Métodos Cualitativos son humanistas

Los investigadores cualitativos dan énfasis a la validez en su investigación.

Para el investigador cualitativo, todos los escenarios y personas son dignos de estudio.

Dos enfoques teóricos que pertenecen la tradición fenomenológica:

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.

The Orioles' Dick Hall comes off the mound like a drunk kangaroo on roller skates.

There's a way that white people and black people spoke in the '70s that is nothing like how they speak now. They spoke from a soul, actually. There's a singsongy way of walking and talking that's just different now.

Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it.

With fame comes opportunity, but in my opinion, it also includes responsibility - to advocate and share, to focus less on glass slippers and more on pushing through glass ceilings and, if I'm lucky enough, then to inspire.

I think every role is always exciting and intimidating. I've never had a role where I wasn't intimidated by it.

My career got sidetracked after fighting Holmes.

The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'

If you blithely do what you do and you're good at what you do, and try to be a decent person, you can succeed.

Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system.

Fragile egos make for fragile friendships.

I'm intimidated anytime I work with someone who's directly outside my very insulated group of friends.

A perfect run has nothing to do with distance. It's when your stride feels comfortable.

Those who expect the blessings of freedom, must, like men undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

If suffering brought wisdom the dentists office would be full of luminous ideas.

Is the human race a universal constructor?

At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

Go where you will, if a shilling can there be procured, you may expect to meet with individuals in search of it.

A harrassed and dubious childhood under the hand of a well-meaning but barbarous mother's help from County Armagh led me to think of the North of Ireland as prison and the South as a land of escape.

Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.

In order to change the world you have to get your head together first.

Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!