Are self-confessed limitations of a research study evaluative claims?
They’re definitely evaluative. No study is perfect and self evaluation (or self confessed limitations) is necessary not only for your own self improvement as a researcher but also so those who use your research topic can try something different. This is In order to, as Weber would say make your research as value free as possible. As well as to highlight to what propose your research can be legitimately put to. lets say you were looking at say the opinions of Spanish teenagers with regards to Franco and you carried out in-depth qualitative open interviews with four teenagers. One of the limitations of your research would possibly be that they do not give you a reliable account of Spanish teenagers view (as there were only four interviews carried out). Therefore I could not come along as say: ‘As Lang (2008) found in her research Spanish teenagers regarded Franco as a tyrant as illustrated in her study…’ because you would highlight in your evaluation that although the information you c
