The Research Act

Denzin, N. K. (1978). The Research Act: A Theoretical Introduction to Sociological Methods. McGraw-Hill.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Textbook

Year

1978

Link

https://archive.org/details/researchacttheo00denz not authoritativematched

Cited from

communication_media_studies, ethnography_qualitative_methods

Cited by

6 citations across 6 artifacts.

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Primes

• Rashomon Effect
  • The perspective-bound-account discipline ports from witness studies into ethnography as triangulation, member checking, and reflexive positionality.

    This sourceDevelops triangulation, member checking, and reflexive positionality as the discipline for perspective-bound accounts in qualitative research.

• Triangulation
  • Triangulation is the systematic practice of cross-verifying claims, observations, or conclusions by drawing on multiple independent sources, methods, perspectives, or data streams, thereby increasing confidence in findings and minimizing distortions that arise from any single viewpoint or methodological limitation

Mechanisms

• Alternate-Vantage Shadow Sample
  • The move is textbook triangulation

    This sourceDefines triangulation as combining independent methods, observers, or data sources to offset the weaknesses of any single vantage.

• Diverse Data Source Triangulation
  • The classic misuse is counting sources instead of checking their error mechanisms.

    This sourceEmphasizes the inherent biases of individual sources and methods that triangulation is intended to offset.

• Field Investigation
  • Cross-checking independent lines of evidence — triangulation — is the mechanism's core defense against being fooled by any single noisy source.

    This sourceDefines triangulation as combining distinct methods, data sources, or perspectives so weaknesses in any one line of evidence can be checked against the others.

• Triangulation Matrix
  • This is the working form of methodological triangulation — combining differently-vulnerable sources so their convergence means more than any one could alone.

    This sourceDevelops triangulation as the combination of methods, data sources, investigators, or theories so convergence can strengthen a finding beyond any single approach.

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