在休閒領域中，質性方法策略的興起與應用提供了異於以往的研究視角，並重新解釋了許多傳統的研究命題，甚至與許多社會理論結合，對目前的社會現象與行為脈絡提出有別以往的解釋。但在質性研究作品大量出現的同時，也引起了許多學術上的爭辯與質疑，尤其是在質性研究方法的典範與學術社群普遍所接受的方法常模有衝突時，對研究成果的質疑聲浪更加明顯。早期學者對於此種爭辯時通常會落入傳統質量爭執(QQB)的窠臼，對方法典範間的不一致性加以提出答辯或修正。由於許多學者對質性研究的真正典範精神與所秉持的科學哲學基礎並未深究，因而造成許多方法使用上的限制與假性辯論。本研究的目的乃是從社會視角重構的觀點，論證質性研究方法在這個時代興起的正當性，並試圖釐清質性方法在休閒領域中運用的層次與影響的命題類型，進而討論學術界對質性相關研究的批判與質疑，以瞭解質性典範在休閒相關領域的應用潛能。

The rise of qualitative methodology has contributed different research perspectives in leisure studies and endowed traditional social issues with new thinking approaches. It not only sheds light on the social theory, but also further provides the in-depth explanation toward the multiplicity of social phenomenon and behaviors. However, there are many academic critiques and discussion regarding the utilization of qualitative strategy in leisure-related researches, especially when some major concerns of qualitative methods contradict the quantitative method that has been regarded as the dominant scientific approach in the past few decades. Scholars who intend to resolve this confusion in early period usually fell into the trap of traditional qualitativequantitative debate (QQB) and only focused on the inconsistency occurred in the instrumental level of methodology. The unawareness of the methodological paradigm thus resulted ineffectual debates among scholars with opposite views. Due to this reason, this study aimed to justify the crucial role of qualitative methodology in this postmodern age, elucidate how qualitative approach was adopt in leisure-related studies, and further clarify the argument of QQB occurred in the current academic society of Taiwan.