Qualitative Approach

Cut-off date 27 February.

Part1: Essay. ‘Evaluate the contribution of a qualitative approach to research on friendship’.

Part2: DE100 project report – Method.

Part3: Reflection.

They both initially used a quality approach.

Part:1

‘Evaluate the contribution of a qualitative approach to research on friendship’.

This essay’s aims are to evaluate the contribution of a qualitative approach to friendship. I will discuss how different approaches studying friendship have been developed and how the findings influenced our understanding of friendships. Also, my focus will be on the benefits of quantitative and qualitative approaches and the limits of using qualitative methods for understanding friendship. In this paper, I will focus on two major

He carried out his study by maintaining the children 's individual view of the word “friend. Rather than asking a child to write down their thoughts on the friendship he participated by watching and observing from a distance. This enabled Corsaro to see things from a child 's perspective. So, by close researcher involvement in a group(ethnography) Corsaro was able to collect rich, complex data and explain findings more in-depth. However, Corsaro wasn 't interested in turning his results into quantitative data. As quantitative data would not be robust enough to explain complex issues. for e.g. Quantitative data would not allow children to explain their choices. However, qualitative data has some disadvantages in this research. For example, because of the central role played by Corsaro in the generation of data, it is not possible to replicate qualitative studies. Also, contexts, situations, events, conditions, and interactions cannot be replicated to any extent. Furthermore, Corsaro hasn’t varied his ideas enough and kept them to a small, minimum age range and haven’t varied the different situations. In addition, if he had mixed situations and ages Corsaro may have had a very different result to what he had. However, Corsaro gained an insight into culture influences and values within the group. He found that Italian children are passionate about debates, while White American 's avoid this. This shows a

They both used different methods: Corsaro used an ethnographic which was based on the qualitative method and unlike Bigelow and La Gaipa who used a written quantitative research method. I believe that the qualitative method overruled over quantitative method with Bigelow and La Gaipa’s compared to William Corsaro’s approach studies on friendships. As a qualitative method provided much bigger, more complex and richer