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 started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!

My neighbor has two dogs. One of them says to the other Woofx9D The other replies Moox9D The dog is perplexed. Moo Why did you say Moox9D The other dog says Im trying to learn a foreign language.

I use bath gloves in the shower every day. People often comment on my skin and I just tell them that I use bath gloves.

Fight fire with fire

I've always had a fascination with vampires. It's not that I'm exactly fascinated with the dark side. It's the human struggle with it. How we deal with those two aspects of who we are. We all have those elements.

Whether I'm writing solo stuff, electronic stuff, or material for Motley, I just write to write. I come up with it and put things in different piles.

No one ever built the filibuster rule. It just kind of was created.

Women's particular experiences continue to shape not just their points of view but their actions, in the United States and around the world.

Say and do something positive that will help the situation it doesnt take any brains to complain.

When you're famous, you're always famous. It doesn't go away.

All the world loves a lover

I had to redo my last house after the pipes burst, and something was lost in the renovation. The soul of the old space was compromised.

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.

I didn't have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.

President Johnson offered the middle of the road.

I don't read reviews.

The other person's presence ultimately is the same as your presence, because it is in presence that there is true meeting.

Steven Spielberg's 'The Color Purple' might as well have been about a bunch of dancing eggplants for all it has to say about black history.

Why would anyone want to be famous, certainly not me. My only goal in an acting career is to be able to work full time as an actor, filmmaker. When I get to that level, which I will, in this business where I can spend one hundred percent of my time honing my craft, then I will be complete.

It's unfortunate that in an interview sometimes things can seem so black and white.

In fact, we have a choice of freedom of heart to follow God.

You think you know her. Just wait and see the change. I'll have her trained in no time.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.