Nowadays, research methodology is divided into two mail categories. Quantitative research that is based on positivistic philosophy and acquires objective knowledge, by means of drawing a line between the subject of the knowledge and its causer. The other, namely qualitative research takes a holistic approach towards phenomena and aims at discovering the meaning of them. Emphasizing on the variety of qualitative methods, the present article discusses different phases and methods of a qualitative research, such as data acquisition.
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