The fallacy of fallacies

Gerardo Munck has done the field a service by raising fundamental critiques of a broad range of topics in the burgeoning literature on qualitative research methods. In view of the remarkable outpouring of books and articles on these methods in the last decade, it has no doubt been difficult for practitioners of qualitative methods, and even for methodologists of all stripes, to keep up with and make sense of the large number of sometimes competing claims raised in this fast-moving literature. Munck’s critiques are timely in this regard, and an ongoing discourse in which qualitative methodologists are among their own toughest critics is a welcome sign of the heightened state of development that qualitative methods have achieved