Using context to build rigor: Application to two hermeneutic phenomenological studies

Qualitative Social Work

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 101-122

  Armour, Marilyn ^a,b   Rivaux, Stephanie L ^a,b   Bell, Holly ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b School of Social Work   (United States)

Author keywords

Hermeneutic phenomenology; Qualitative methods; Rigor

Indexed keywords

EID: 61449201844     PISSN: 14733250     EISSN: 17413117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1473325008100424     Document Type: Article

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