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