Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
Research
• Phenomenological
It is designed to describe and interpret an experience by
determining the meaning of the experience as perceived by the
people who have participated in it.
Data Collection
Interviewing multiple individuals is the typical data collection
approach
Types of Coding
Open coding
It deals with labeling and categorizing phenomenon in the data.
It uses the comparative method. Data are broken down by asking
what, where, how, when, how much, etc.
◦ Axial coding
◦ Selective coding
Primary sources
are original documents (correspondence, diaries, reports, etc.), relics, remains, or
artifacts.
Secondary Sources
second-hand observation, i.e. the author collected the data from
eyewitnesses
Two ideas that have proved useful in evaluating historical sources
are the concepts of external (or lower) criticism and internal (or
higher) criticism.