9065105e_ative_Research___Ian_Carnaghan__Approach
[0] Critical Theory [Practice] Focus on changes in how people think - encourage interaction, networks for 'social theorizing'; Focus on use of intensive case study or historically comparative cases; Formation of formal models; Use of 'ethnographic accounts' (interpretive social psychology). [Approach] 
Focus concerned with empowering people to transcend constraints placed on them by race, class, and power; Interpret or illuminate social action; Themes include scientific study of institutions and their transformation through interpreting meanings of social life; historical problems; domination, alienation, and social struggles.
Philosophical Assumptions for Qualitative Research - Ian Carnaghan
Approach