Para el investigador cualitativo, todos los escenarios y personas son dignos de estudio. — Ningun aspecto de la vida social es demasiado frívolo o trivial como para ser estudiado. Todos los escenarios y personas son a la vez similares y únicos

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.

El investigador social es un artífice.

Dos enfoques teóricos que pertenecen la tradición fenomenológica:

It's never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.

The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

It's great to play the hero. You get all the good stuff. You're in it all the way through.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'

They're trying to kill me before I'm dead. I come to Quebec to spend some time with my family and they say I'm dead.

I told another ESPN friend here, I love all sports. I can't think of any I don't love. I've even come to appreciate cricket. Maybe I could play a sportswriter. I don't know. Anything in the sports realm is appealing.

When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money.

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much care what they say about it.

Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.

I always seem to be singing against the grain.

In a perfect world, I would never give another speech, address, talk, lecture or whatever as long as I live.

My feet are definitely more grounded than before. And I know that Im not holding onto a dream. Im holding onto my life.

Even good people are obliged to deceive.

Don’t fear experience. Embrace each one as a gift, a teacher, a step to get closer to where you want to be and who you want to become.

She watched and taught the girls that sang at their embroidery frames while the great silk flowers grew from their needles

Violence does not contribute to anything.

I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.