Keeping Kids Smokefree: lessons learned on community participation. + Author Affiliations *Correspondence to: M. Glover. E-mail: m.glover@auckland.ac.nz Received February 19, 2009. Accepted August 18, 2009. Community participation in program decision-making and implementation is an ideal that community and academic stakeholders aspire to in participatory research. . © The Author 2009. Qualitative Research in a Cross-Cultural Context: Fijian Experiences. Cultural Psychology and Qualitative Methodology: Scientific and Political Considerations. An important feature of cultural psychology is its embrace of qualitative methodology. This methodology distinguishes cultural psychology from cross-cultural psychology, which embraces positivistic methodology. It is important to assess the use of qualitative methodology by cultural psychologists. However, cultural psychology consists of diverse theoretical perspectives which utilize qualitative methods differently.
This article articulates a typology of qualitative research methodologies that have been used in conjunction with cultural-psychological approaches. Three Approaches to Qualitative Content Analysis. The Quantitative Imperative. Positivism, Naive Realism and the Place of Qualitative Methods in Psychology Abstract The quantitative imperative is the view that in science, when you cannot measure, you do not really know what you are talking about, but when you can, you do, and, therefore, qualitative methods have no place in psychology. On the basis of this imperative, qualitative research methods are still excluded from mainstream psychology. Where does this view come from? Toward a social history of qualitative research. There are plausible academic as well as social indicators that qualitative research has become an indispensable part of the methodological repertoire of the social sciences.
Relying upon the tenets of the qualitative approach which require a priority of subject matter over method and a necessary socio-historical contextualization, I reconstruct some aspects of a social history that have shaped the quantitative—qualitative dichotomy and the quantitative imperative; these include modern individualism, monological rationality, manufacture operating on the grounds of common human labour, mechanics as the first science, quantification as a technology of distanced objectivity and a search for certainty realized at the expense of qualitative attributes. The so-called renaissance of the qualitative approach starting in 1960s, understood as a kind of a return of repressed qualities, is also socio-culturally contextualized. . © The Author(s) 2011.