ABSTRACT
Chapter 1 provides a broad introduction to qualitative inquiry, and gently acquaints the newcomer with key terminology and concepts often used in, and to describe qualitative inquiry, like: subjective/intersubjective, social constructionism, generalizable, empirical, and that all too prickly concept of bias. It concludes with Exercise 1.1: Finding the Story Behind the Numbers which enables the shift from asking quantitative questions to asking qualitative questions.
