ABSTRACT
Qualitative data tend to overload the researcher badly at almost every point: the sheer range of phenomena to be observed, the recorded volume of notes, the time required for write-up, coding and analysis can all become overwhelming. Qualitative research often focuses on re-examining the surface accounts of social reality, ranging from descriptions of the experiences of small groups of people through to the working practices of large organizations. Commonly, there is an official version of the reality under investigation, which the researcher wishes to re-examine. There are complex practical and conceptual issues in regarding the programs as tools, and in implying that a collection of such programs may be employed as analytic tasks demand. Grounded theory writers stress that studies dealing in social phenomena are not strictly replicable, arguing that grounded theory should be 'reproducible in the limited sense that it is verifiable'.
