Assignment 6

Critiquing a Published Article that Uses a Qualitative Method

Find a academic journal article that describes a reseach study that uses one or more qualitative reseach methods, such as focus groups, content analysis, unobtrusive observation, or another method discussed in the Babbie textbook. Then, answer the following five questions:

1. What was the author's research question(s)?
2. What qualitative methodology was used to obtrain emperical evidence to answer the reseach question?
3. What are the major findings and conclusions of the article?
4. What do you think are the strengths and weaknesses of the research study?
5. Do you think the findings and conclusions are scientifically justifable, and why?