Qualitative Approaches to Researching Management and Organisations
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Question 5

What is the meaning of life? Explore the different ways in which different answers to this question may lead different researchers to different research outcomes when confronted with what, to all intents and purposes, are the same pieces of research data.

Guidelines

This question invites you to consider the possibility that a belief in the meaning of life may affect Researchers’ perceptions of reality, and that this may also apply to people who do not consider that there is a meaning to life at all.

Overall Guidelines (for all 5 questions):

The guidelines for any particular question are not exclusive to that quest and may be used to explore, support or critique aspects of any research philosophical approach. Here are some keywords for all the 5 questions:
i. Sociology of knowledge
ii. Worldview (lebenswelt)
iii. Verstehen
iv. Paradigm
v. Thomas Kuhn
vi. Karl Popper
vii. William Foote Whyte
viii. Paul Feyerabend – ‘Against Method’
ix. Erving Goffman – The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
x. Berger and Luckman – The Social Construction of Reality

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