البحوث الكيفية بين الموضوعية والموثوقية

Abstract EN

Objectivity expresses the researcher’s impartiality vis-à-vis the study and his nonimmersion in it, while reliability is the amount of trust placed by the reader in the results of the study.

however, the foundations and premises of qualitative research, which believe that social truth can only be attained through interaction and immersion in order to understand and construct it, along with the study’s openness and flexibility, are all characteristics which make the objectivity and reliability of qualitative research a real concern for a deep scientific and philosophical discussion.

this study attempts to address qualitative research in terms of its definition, characteristics and intellectual premises, as well as its design, the manner in which its data is organized and analyzed, and the relation between it all and the conundrum of these researches’ objectivity, validity, stability and reliability, coming to the essential conclusion that the concepts of objectivity, stability, and validity have different semantic meanings in qualitative research, where the latter uses distinct and special methods along with many techniques aiding in confirming the validity, objectivity, and reliability of the results of these researches.