Clarifying a basis for qualitative generalization using approaches that identify shared culture

Qualitative Research

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 473-485

  Fairweather, John ^a   Rinne, Tiffany ^a  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

cultural consensus analysis; cultural modelling; ideal types; idiographic sampling theory; inference; moderatum generalization; Q methodology; qualitative generalization; shared culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864416209     PISSN: 14687941     EISSN: 17413109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468794111433000     Document Type: Article

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