Social Research Workshop – Qualitative Methods in Social Sciences

The aim of this session was to provide a broad understanding for the use of qualitative methods in social science researches.

The session attempted to answer following questions:

-What are the different epistemological/ontological considerations in social science?

-Why and when do we need qualitative methods?

-What distinguishes a qualitative research from quantitative one?

-How to collect qualitative data

-How to analyse qualitative data

This session might be particularly useful for post graduate students in sociology and management