Vilmos Žydžiūnaitės ir Stanislav Sabaliausko vadovėlio „Kokybiniai tyrimai: principai ir metodai“ recenzija

Abstract

Qualitative research enables to explore situations and events in their natural setting as well as aims to describe and comprehend any phenomenon, to reveal the meaning of various senses, experiences and qualitative indications of non-digital nature. Thus, the researcher, who requires qualitative approach for his or her study problem, has fully to understand methodological principles of such kind of analysis and to master separate strategies of qualitative research. Up to the date, foreign authors widely discuss qualitative research methodology in their publications, nevertheless, publications in Lithuanian on the latter subject are very few and often fragmentary, lacking fullscope. That is why the textbook, written by Vilma Žydžiūnaitė and Stanislav Sabaliauskas, is of great relevance for Lithuanian scientists. The publication consists of exordium, introduction, and ten chapters. In one of the chapters, general qualitative research elements are discussed; in the next seven chapters, separate methods/ strategies such as qualitative content analysis, phenomenology, phenomenography, grounded theory, thematic analysis, narrative analysis, and ethnography are presented; the last two chapters analyse the questions of validity in qualitative researches as well as related ethical issues. For different methods presentation, authors have chosen specific structure and the logic of thematic delivery that allow reader coherently and properly to absorb essential features of each qualitative research method as well as to get introduced to method appliance steps starting at study planning and finishing at scientific report preparation. While revealing the specifics of every research method that is presented in the handbook, authors expand particular chapters into more details, whereas other parts of the book are discussed in more general manner. [...].