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C Mattingly, PhD, is Assistant Professor, Department of Occupational Therapy (M/C 811), University of Illinois at Chicago, 1919 W Taylor St, Chicago, IL 60612

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Qualitative research methods have traditionally dominated history, anthropology, literary criticism, and some schools of sociology and psychology. Increasingly, these methods are finding a place in professional disciplines, from education to medicine, where once only quantitative paradigms reigned. In areas where qualitative research is still rare, qualitative researchers often must answer objections about the "science" of their practice, questions that historians, anthropologists, and literary theorists have often been able to avoid because such methods are common in their fields. Qualitative researchers in quantitatively driven disciplines characteristically find themselves turning to philosophy to defend their methods; most often they look to phenomenology and modern hermeneutics, which offer sustained arguments about the need for a different kind of science for the study of human activity, one designed to ferret out the personal, social, and cultural meanings persons attach to the actions they take.

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