Interpretive Description

By S. Thorne. 2008

1,558 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/af303dc06cd63dbc091d99c2a6d47f728c479281

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Clinical Psychology

1. B. Gladstone
2. D. Polit
3. Cheryl Tatano Beck
4. J. Eakin
5. M. O’Hara
6. Jennifer E. McCabe

In Language and Linguistics

1. B. Gladstone
2. D. Polit
3. Cheryl Tatano Beck
4. J. Eakin

In Sociology and Political Science

1. B. Gladstone
2. D. Polit
3. Cheryl Tatano Beck
4. J. Eakin

Citations in the corpus

• Generalization in quantitative and qualitative research: myths and strategies. (2010, positive): “Thorne (2008) echoed similar sentiments about the need to adopt a practical perspective: ‘‘. . .the moral mandate of a practice discipline requires usable general knowledge. . .(Qualitative) researchers in this field are obliged to consider their findings ‘as if’ they might indeed be applied in…”
• “Value-adding” Analysis: Doing More With Qualitative Data (2020, background): “More conceptually adventuresome, theory-informed analysis is variously unexplored, or dismissed as being inappropriate for applied research agendas (Thorne, 2016, 2020).”