ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses the multi-faceted arena in such a way that come out with a workable definition of what values are and of how one might conceivably studies them as qualitative fieldworkers. It discusses the qualitative research methods in relation to values and the notion of value-freedom and the role of values in qualitative research. The chapter focuses how to study values using qualitative methods; one could say that emotions serve as indicators of values. Values are predominantly a topic of ethics that is of that branch of philosophy which inquires into good or bad action, and of axiology which is the philosophical discipline which explicitly deals with questions of values. Naturalism is an orientation concerns the study of social life in real, the experiencing, observing, describing, understanding and analysing the features of social life in concrete situations as they occur independent of scientific manipulation.