RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -A qualitative research does not test, but produce hypotheses for future research. These hypotheses becomes clear during the initial research, they are results of the research. The researcher does not know from the beginning what to expect during qualitative research.

Detailed explanation-2: -In qualitative research, a hypothesis is used in the form of a clear statement concerning the problem to be investigated. Unlike in quantitative research, where hypotheses are only developed to be tested, qualitative research can lead to hypothesis-testing and hypothesis-generating outcomes.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hypotheses are the testable statements linked to your research question. Hypotheses bridge the gap from the general question you intend to investigate (i.e., the research question) to concise statements of what you hypothesize the connection between your variables to be.

Detailed explanation-4: -Typically, results from qualitative research have been assumed to apply only to the small groups studied, such that generalizability of the results to other populations is not expected. For this reason, qualitative research is considered to be hypothesis generating, although some experts dispute this limitation.

Detailed explanation-5: -You can see the emergence of qualitative research at the start of the 20th century as the influence of psychoanalysis started to enter into the commercial world. By 1945 the father of qualitative research, Paul Felix Lazersfield, had shown how psychology could provide aframework to interpret human behaviour.