Perspectiva fenomenológica — Los investigadores cualitativos tratan de comprender a las personas dentro del marco de referencia de ellas mismas... es esencial experimentar la realidad tal como otros la experimentan.

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:

el investigador cualitativo ve las cosas como si ellas estuvieran ocurriendo por primera vez. Nada se da por sobrentendido. Todo es un tema de investigación. Página 8

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.

El investigador social es un artífice.

Dos enfoques teóricos que pertenecen la tradición fenomenológica:

I have a great deal of respect for any women that will enter the world of little boys of sports.

I can't believe we're in the middle of the fifth season, and if this is all there is, my God, it went fast.

I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions.

Young people should ponder over problems that might confront them and be prepared to cope with them in a way that their parents, their leaders, and their Heavenly Father would have them cope, that they might keep themselves clean and pure.

I think that Oprah's on a mission to improve the lives of the average American in various ways. And one of them is to bring literature to people who would normally not be quite as demanding in their reading tastes, to show them writing that can be more than just entertainment.

I've been writing full-time since I was 23.

That's what I love about sketch comedy: a sketch is five minutes, then it goes dark, and there's the potential for something else.

China can and will be an invaluable trading partner to both the U.S. and the U.K.

There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum.

It is June. I am tired of being brave.

The doctors have given me a green light. They have said that my heart is significantly more efficient today than it was four months ago. And I am anxious to be the next president of the United States.

You must develop personal contacts if you want to be successful.

Accounting is the language of business.

It's important to say women are complex.

Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't, it isn't. It's no big deal.

The most judgmental people are often those who complain most about being judged. The ones not complaining will look as though they're the ones doing the judging.

The habit of attending to small things and of appreciating small courtesies is one of the important marks of a good person.

You cannot be brave if you do not have a coward inside you.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths

I am an optimist, and I try to think that the light will always prevail in any situation, so it doesn't really make me sad about humanity because I think, deep down, everybody is full of love and light.

I've always wanted to make a light that looks like the light you see in your dream.

British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.

I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.

People are people and sometimes we change our minds.