Additional readings Flashcards
Describe Naturalistic generalisability?
- Naturalistic generalisability - when the research resonates with the readers personal engagement in life affairs and experiences
Describe transferability generalisability?
- transferable to other settings. Degree of congruence between sending and receiving contexts.
Describe analytical generalisability?
- concept/theory is constructed that later makes sense in other research across different contexts/populations
Describe intersectional generalisability?
- records historically oppressed communities and their social movements of resistance
Describe reader generalisability?
- reader called on to be actively involved in making generalisations
Describe 3 criteria for quality excellent qualitative research?
- Worthy topic - good qualitative research is relevant, timely, significant and interesting or evocative
- Ethical - the research considers procedural ethics, situational and culturally specific ethics, relational ethics and exiting ethics
- Resonance - the research moves a variety of audiences through aesthetic, evocative representations, naturalistic generalisations and transferable findings.
List the three common ways used the demonstrate rigor when conducting or judging qualitative research?
Member checking, inter-rater reliability and universal criteria
What is member checking?
Participants of a project assessing the trustworthiness of research in terms of validating the credibility of qualitative data and results
Why is member checking problematic for ensuring vigorous research?
- Researchers have been unable to show how to make contact with the external reference point
- No evidence that routine member checks enhance the credibility or trustworthiness of qualitative research
- researchers face numerous insurmountable practical problems when using this method
What is inter-rater reliability?
method that aims to ensure results are reliable in the sense of being reproducible and consistent by employing intercoder reliability and agreement
What are two characteristics of ethnography?
- involves commitment to first hand experience and exploration of a particular social or cultural setting
- exploration through participant observation
What is phenomenology? and what is a strength and limitation of this design?
- study of phenomena, things as they present themselves to, and are perceived in, human consciousness
- researcher can use their motivation and personal interest to fuel the study
- can be time consuming and labor intensive
What are two characteristics of phenomenologists?
- rejection of scientific realism
- phenomenology reduction - distil the phenomenon down to its core meaning.
What is a life history? and what is a strength and limitation of this method?
- approaches to qualitative study that focuses on the generation, analysis, and presentation of the data of a life history
- opportunity to understand the social process that takes place in informants life at a certain time period
- dependent upon researchers personal attributes and skills
What is ethnography? What is a strength and limitation of ethnographic research?
- Art and science of describing a human group - its institutions, interpersonal behaviours and beliefs
- allow culture to speak about its views and perspectives
- must pay special attention to ethics as they often study sensitive cultures
What is grounded theory? and what is a strength and limitation of this method?
- systematic, yet flexible, approach to analysing qualitative data to construct theories that are grounded in the data themselves
- encourages researchers to remain close to their studied worlds
- time consuming and difficult to conduct
What are two characteristics of grounded theory ?
- constant comparison - comparing like to like, to trace out the emerging pattern and theory
- theoretical sampling - coding the data, comparing the data, and grouping similar data to build categories and core categories.
What is a case study? and what is a strength and limitation of this method?
- both a process of inquiry about the case and the product of that inquiry
- anchored in real life situations, resulting in rich and holistic account of a phenomenon
- limited by the sensitivity and integrity of the investigator
What are two characteristics of a case study?
- used to gain an understanding of the issues in real life settings
- versatile form of qualitative inquiry
What is auto-ethnography? and what is a strength and limitation of this method?
- Highly personal, revealing writing where researcher focuses on own lived experience
- allows researcher to write first person accounts which enables there voice to be heard
- criticised for being self-indulgent and narcissistic
What are two characteristics of auto-ethnography?
- being critical about personal experiences in the development of research being undertaken
- varied emphasis on the research process, on culture and on self.
What are two characteristics of life history method?
- approaches seek to interrelate the private and the public, the personal and the social
- focus on historical change, moving between the changing biographical history of a person and the social history of there lifespan
what is narrative analysis/inquiry? and what are a strength and limitation to this method?
- make sense of, interpret and represent data in storied form
- instigates personal and social change
- validity rests heavily on evidence of the researchers reflexive awareness.
What are two characteristics of narrative research?
- meaning is created through narrative, and is storied effort and achievement
- narratives are both personal and social
