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studies that involve the researcher making sense of research participants' responses in relation to the research purposes
of course all research involves interpretation, but the term usually means a researcher is working with open-ended data without pre-conceived categories and criteria for coding it
This is a paradigmatic stance, often contrasted with positivist research
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