내러티브 탐구에 대한 비교 고찰

Abstract

This study conducts an analysis on a narrative inquiry in comparison with ethnography and a phenomenological research method in order to understand characteristics of a narrative inquiry. When it comes to most of the current qualitative researches, they are using all these similar research methods such as participant observation, in-depth interviews and others and, that is what makes it hard for those researches actually to distinguish a narrative inquiry from other qualitative research methods. However, as far as this study assumes, each of the qualitative research methods do have their own characteristics and advantages which they can make good use of to figure things out in relation to social phenomenons. As a consequence, in order to carry out an effective investigation on the original characteristics of the qualitative research methods, this study first took a close look into these research subjects that each of the qualitative methods would pursue because, the study was already aware that in terms of those research subjects, they include these viewpoints which would talk about factors that would make the most significant contribution to each of the qualitative research methods when the methods try to describe social phenomenons. As a next step, the study worked on differences in research techniques of the qualitative research methods.