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Describe Naturalistic generalisability?

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  • Naturalistic generalisability - when the research resonates with the readers personal engagement in life affairs and experiences
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Describe transferability generalisability?

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  • transferable to other settings. Degree of congruence between sending and receiving contexts.
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Describe analytical generalisability?

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  • concept/theory is constructed that later makes sense in other research across different contexts/populations
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Describe intersectional generalisability?

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  • records historically oppressed communities and their social movements of resistance
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Describe reader generalisability?

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  • reader called on to be actively involved in making generalisations
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Describe 3 criteria for quality excellent qualitative research?

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  • 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.
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List the three common ways used the demonstrate rigor when conducting or judging qualitative research?

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Member checking, inter-rater reliability and universal criteria

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What is member checking?

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Participants of a project assessing the trustworthiness of research in terms of validating the credibility of qualitative data and results

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Why is member checking problematic for ensuring vigorous research?

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  • 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
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What is inter-rater reliability?

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method that aims to ensure results are reliable in the sense of being reproducible and consistent by employing intercoder reliability and agreement

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What are two characteristics of ethnography?

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  • involves commitment to first hand experience and exploration of a particular social or cultural setting
  • exploration through participant observation
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What is phenomenology? and what is a strength and limitation of this design?

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  • 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
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What are two characteristics of phenomenologists?

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  • rejection of scientific realism

- phenomenology reduction - distil the phenomenon down to its core meaning.

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What is a life history? and what is a strength and limitation of this method?

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  • 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
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What is ethnography? What is a strength and limitation of ethnographic research?

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  • 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
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What is grounded theory? and what is a strength and limitation of this method?

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  • 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
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What are two characteristics of grounded theory ?

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  • 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.
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What is a case study? and what is a strength and limitation of this method?

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  • 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
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What are two characteristics of a case study?

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  • used to gain an understanding of the issues in real life settings
  • versatile form of qualitative inquiry
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What is auto-ethnography? and what is a strength and limitation of this method?

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  • 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
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What are two characteristics of auto-ethnography?

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  • being critical about personal experiences in the development of research being undertaken
  • varied emphasis on the research process, on culture and on self.
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What are two characteristics of life history method?

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  • 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
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what is narrative analysis/inquiry? and what are a strength and limitation to this method?

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  • 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.
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What are two characteristics of narrative research?

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  • meaning is created through narrative, and is storied effort and achievement
  • narratives are both personal and social
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What are two characteristics of critical research?

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  • supports a kind of reasoning that is practical, moral, and ethically and politically informed
  • knowledge is structured by existing sets of social relations

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