The Ethical and Methodological Dilemma of Questioning the Truthfulness of a Participant’s Story: Using “Circulating Reference” to Enhance the Validity of Qualitative Research
The question of how to enhance validity in qualitative research has been thoroughly debated. In this debate, however, the truthfulness of participants’ stories is rarely questioned. But what do you do if you, while working within a critical realist perspective, come across a story that seems almost...
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| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2022-08-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Qualitative Methods |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069221117985 |