Introduction: The Practice of Qualitative Research and Thinking Qualitatively

Abstract

In assembling a research design using qualitative methods, what we are really doing is building bridges between the ways that we see the world and the ways that we think it would be best examined and explained. Another way of saying this is that qualitative methods link ontology, epistemology and the Millsian sociological imagination (Mills, 1959).

Citation

Young, K. and Atkinson, M. (2012), "Introduction: The Practice of Qualitative Research and Thinking Qualitatively", Young, K. and Atkinson, M. (Ed.) Qualitative Research on Sport and Physical Culture (Research in the Sociology of Sport, Vol. 6), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. ix-xix. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1476-2854(2012)0000006003