Which of the Following Statements Best Represents a Specific Criticism

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements best represents a specific criticism of the narrative approach in qualitative methods?

A) Narrative analysis tends to put off data analysis until all the data has first been collected-it is too deductive.
B) It provides an overwhelming array of particular and specific details without providing much of a general explanation that researchers can apply to other settings or contexts.
C) Qualitative researchers who are critical of the narrative approach argue that it has a tendency to contain too much rich data.
D) Narrative analysis produces too many generalizations at the expense of including concrete details.
E) Narrative analysis is too abstract because it gets away from the facts and focuses too much on the generation of theoretical concepts.