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Traditional | 1900-\u003Cbr>1950 | Many researchers who rejected (logical) positivism embraced the qualitative research paradigm |\n| 2. Modernist or | 1950- | Attempt to make qualitative research as rigorous as quantitative |\n| golden age | 1970 | research; causal narratives were central; many texts attempted to formalize qualitative research; new interpretive theories emerged (e.g., ethnomethodology, critical theory, feminism, phenomenology) |\n| 3. Blurred | 1970- | Qualitative researchers had full arsenal of paradigms, methods, and |\n| genres | 1986 | strategies; computers came to the fore to aid qualitative analyses; new approaches surfaced (e.g., poststructuralism, neopositivism); several qualitative journals emerged; naturalistic, postpositivist, and constructionist paradigms gained power |\n| 4. Crisis of | 1986- | Research and writing became more reflexive and led to questions |\n| representation | 1990 | about issues of gender, race, and class; new models of truth, representation, and method were sought; issues such as validity, reliability, and objectivity re-emerged as being problematic; triple crises of representation (i.e., qualitative researchers can no longer directly capture lived experience), legitimation (i.e., makes problematic the traditional criteria for evaluating and interpreting qualitative research), and praxis (i.e., involves asking whether it is possible to effect change in the world if society is only and always a text) |\n| 5. Post-modern | 1990- | Struggle to make sense of triple crises; new ways of composing |\n| period of | 1995 | ethnography emerged (e.g., auto-ethnography); concept of passive |\n| experimental |  | observer discarded; more action, participatory, and activist-oriented |\n| ethnographic writing |  | research emerged |\n| 6. Post-experimental | 1995- | Writings connected to the needs of a free democratic society; |\n| inquiry | 2000 | experimental forms of qualitative writing published that blurred the boundaries between social sciences and humanities |\n| 7. Methodologically | 2000- | Period of conflict, great tension, and retrenchment; growing body of |\n| contested present | 2004 | literature on paradigms, approaches, and methods |\n| 8. Un-named | 2005- | Period of confronting the methodological ramifications of the evidence-based social movement |\n| 9. Fractured future | 2005- | Methodologists form two opposing camps (i.e., “gold standard” of scientific research vs. socially, culturally, ethnically, and racially responsive, communitarian, justice-oriented research) |\n| 10. Methodological innovationb | 2008-? | Utilization of innovative approaches to reflexivity and latest technology and computer-mediated communication |\n\n\n| Emotion | Adapters | Lexical Movements | Symbolic Gestures |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Happiness |  |  |  |\n| Sadness |  |  |  |\n| Anger |  |  |  |\n| Fear |  |  |  |\n| Disgust |  |  |  |\n| Surprise |  |  |  |\n| Otherb |  |  |  |\n\n\n| Emotion | Iconics | Metaphorics | Beats | Deictics | Emblemsb |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Happiness |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Sadness |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Anger |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Fear |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Disgust |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Surprise |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Otherc |  |  |  |  |  |","cbCaiowzAvpnbDoY","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiowzAvpnbDoY","pdf",177159,31,"English","# Moment timeline\n## Traditional (1900-1950)\n## Modernist or golden age (1950-1970)\n## Blurred genres (1970-1986)\n## Crisis of representation (1986-1990)\n## Post-modern period (1990-1995)\n## Post-experimental inquiry (1995-2000)\n## Methodologically contested present (2000-2004)\n## Un-named period (2005)\n## Fractured future (2005)\n## Methodological innovationb (2008-?)\n# Emotion and meaning mapping tables","[{\"question\":\"What major transition does the document describe after 1900–1950?\",\"answer\":\"It moves from early qualitative researchers rejecting logical positivism to later attempts to make qualitative research as rigorous as quantitative approaches.\"},{\"question\":\"What are the “triple crises of representation” referenced in the timeline?\",\"answer\":\"The document lists crises of representation, legitimation, and praxis, questioning whether lived experience can be directly captured, whether evaluation criteria remain valid, and whether change is possible when society is treated only as text.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the timeline characterize developments after 1995?\",\"answer\":\"It describes post-experimental inquiry that connects qualitative writing to democratic needs, publishes experimental forms blurring boundaries between social sciences and humanities, and continues toward innovation through reflexivity and technology-mediated communication.\"}]","Qualitative Research Paradigms and Methodological Evolution - Timeline | PDF"]