Walt Whitman wrote, “I am large, I contain multitudes.” In qualitative social science, this applies as both a celebration of what makes us human and as a warning of the limitations of using artificial ...

P ositionality statements, in which scholars declare identity categories to which they belong and indicate how such categories might bias their research, have become commonplace in the social sciences ...

Sometimes, I throw some contentious statements out to see what the responses are like. For example, "Qualitative research, in isolation, is nothing but glorified journalism. " This one might not be ...

As a researcher who has used a wide variety of methodologies, I understand the importance of acknowledging that we, as researchers, do not pick the methodology; rather, the research question dictates ...