This paper compares the research method of phenomenological psychology to other qualitative research methods such as ethnography, participant observation, grounded theory, dramaturgical interviewing and content analysis. An attempt is made to identify similarities and differences. As a prelude, the major metatheories with which they are associated (phenomenology and symbolic inieractionism) and the related differences between natural science and human science are discussed.
The Transition from Quantitative to Qualitative MethodologyThose researchers who are willing to explore qualitative methods face several difficulties.
Abstract. For a transcendental entire function f , we study the set of points BU (f ) whose iterates under f neither escape to infinity nor are bounded. We give new results on the connectedness properties of this set and show that, if U is a Fatou component that meets BU (f ), then most boundary points of U (in the sense of harmonic measure) lie in BU (f ). We prove this using a new result concerning the set of limit points of the iterates of f on the boundary of a wandering domain. Finally, we give some examples to illustrate our results.
We investigate some connectedness properties of the set of points K(f) where the iterates of an entire function f are bounded. We describe a class of transcendental entire functions for which K(f) is totally disconnected if and only if each component of K(f) containing a critical point is aperiodic. Moreover we show that, for such functions, if K(f) is disconnected then it has uncountably many components. We give examples of functions for which K(f) is totally disconnected and we use quasiconformal surgery to construct a function for which K(f) has a component with empty interior that is not a singleton.
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