To start this post, I would like to point out that I have no interest in reading either or the writing pieces that my professor assigned this week. Half because I am already overwhelmed in work and hate informational readings, and the other half being because of the overwhelming length of each piece. But as much as I dreaded the thought of reading, they both helped me gain a better understanding of what our upcoming research was going to entail. 

     Qualitative research relates to sociology, which personally, I am fascinated with. It is focused on how humans behave and why they do so. It is often a collaboration of multiple resources, whether they come from personal experiences or already put together things, such as videos or interviews. You're personal opinions and direct contact with others with similar or opposite opinions will help you form your final thoughts or outcome.

     In relation to this research is narrative inquiry. Similarly, they both relate to studying human behavior. However, narrative inquiry focuses on how humans create an understanding of something through experiencing things, mostly personal experience.

     Using these two types of research will be useful for my upcoming project with my group. We will need to use our personal experiences as buyers of food, on top of the opinions and detailed facts that we receive from the person that we are to interview. The final project will be one big collaboration of everyones' research and thoughts, each person having their own part in the process.



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