8: Qualitative Methods Flashcards
What 3 things can data potential tell us about?
Reality, subjectivity or language use.
Simplified, what are our key assumptions?
Real things have a correct representations, science should be objective and without bias, and results should be exactly the same between researchers if correct.
What does selecting variables and operationalising them do meaning interpretation?
Meaning of situation/behaviour has been decided a priori by the researcher.
Simply, what is IPA?
Understanding participants’ subjective experience.
Simply, what is DA?
Social construction of meanings through language and interaction.
How is IPA influenced by phenomenology?
Study of experience, what it’s like to be conscious, etc.
How is IPA influenced by hermeneutics?
Study of interpretation, meaning-giving, etc.
In what way is IPA double hermeneutic?
Research interprets the participant interpreting their experience.
How is IPA ideographic?
It looks at individual cases.
Why does IPA use small, homogeneous samples?
To get rich accounts of particular people in particular settings.
What data collection method is usually used in IPA?
Semi-structured interviews.
How does social constructionism view knowledge?
Inseparable from social relationships, power, etc. and mediated by the concepts and categories available to us in a given time and place.
What does micro SC emphasise?
How meanings are generated, negotiated and contested by people through their immediate interactions.
What does macro SC emphasise?
Constructions that dominate within a given historical and cultural context.
How does discursive psychology view language?
As a tool used to achieve interactional ends.
Why does discursive psychology reject psychology?
DP boreal language as an action, not just a route to understanding internal structures.
What research method is preferred now in discursive psychology?
Naturalistic conversations.
What is script in discursive psychology?
The appropriate or normal course of action in a certain situation.
What is disposition in discursive psychology?
The implication that a person’s actions say something about them.
Give 3 ways of constructing facts in discursive psychology.
Category entitlement stake inoculation, and using rich detail.
How do people construct facts?
By establishing entitlement to speak with authority or objectivity.
Give 3 ways of formulating extreme cases in discursive psychology.
Using strong terms, extreme examples, and extreme language.
What 2 key things do people manage in their language use?
Subjectivity/objectivity and intention.
In IPA, what are descriptive comments?
Comments close to the participant’s explicit meaning, key points that matter to them, taken at face value.
In IPA, what are linguistic comments?
Ideas about why things are put a certain way.
In IPA, what are conceptual comments?
Comments often in the form of questions, more abstract, opening up provisional interpretations.
