In the famous book, "Tally's Corner: a study of Negro streetcorner men", Elliot Liebow interviewed, interacted with, and observe
d poor African American men in Washington D.C. in the 1960's. Liebow constructed a narrative based on the stories and interviews with his research subjects as a means to examine the (then recent) culture of poverty thesis. What type of social research was Liebow engaged in?
Qualitative Research is a type of scientific research which does not involve data on numerical values. The research is based on the how's and why's of the subject matter rather than how many or how often. This research is basically a descriptive research.
<u>In the given question, Liebow collected the data for his research by interacting and interviewing the poop African American. The criteria of data collection used in this research is narrative based and this type of research is qualitative as it does not collect data on numbers but is descriptive.</u>
