Kato, Passidomo, and Harvey (2014) studied the political nature of gardening projects in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. They found that “the local historical context of social inequality and race relations . . . is crucial to understanding how a gardening project’s political engagement may shift over time or exhibit disconnects between mission and practice.” (p. 1845) What feature of qualitative research is most clearly represented in the example?
a. use of idiographic casual explanation
b. sensitivity to the subjective role of researcher
c. collection of primarily qualitative data
d. orientation to social context
e. focus on previously unstudied processes
