Abstract
Background: There are still many practitioners, academics and researchers who are bemused by the principles and practices of qualitative research. The second paper in this three part series on qualitative research explores the important question of research methodologies. Content: Focusing on four of the more common methodologies—phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography and discourse analysis—the article shows how each represents a distinctively different view of reality (a feature of qualitative research that was unpacked in the first article in the series). Conclusions: These methodologies are then used to highlight some of the fundamental methodological differences between quantitative and qualitative research. Having set down these principles, I move on, in the third article, to discuss qualitative methods of data collection and analysis.
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