Analysis Questions Flashcards
What is thematic analysis?
“method for identifying, analysing and reporting patterns (themes) twithin data”
When is thematic analysis appropriate?
Detailed textual data
No strong theoretical perspective driving analysis
What are the steps to conducting a thematic analysis?
- Familiarise self with data
- Generate initial codes (= topic codes)
- Searching for themes (= analytical codes)
- Reviewing themes
- Defining and naming themes
- Producing the report
What is Phenomenology?
Study of the consciousness from a first-person perspective
“A study of people’s subjective and everyday experiences… from the ‘point of view’ or ‘perspective’ of the subject”
What is the focus of phenomenology?
Understanding the essence of a phenomenon
List some characteristics of phenomenology research
epoché: the state where all judgments about non-evident matters are suspended
- Bracketting
Horizontalisation
-Avoiding hierarchies of meaning
Phenomenological psychological reduction
-Consideration of the given from the viewpoint of engaged human consciousness
‘Phenomenological nod’
What is Interpretative phenomenological
analysis?
Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) is an approach to psychological qualitative research with an idiographic focus, which means that it aims to offer insights into how a given person, in a given context, makes sense of a given phenomenon.
Criticisms of conduct of IPA research?
Explanation or description?
- Limited to no ability to answer why and how
Reflexivity:
- Failure to recognise preconceptions
- Failure to recognise own role in interpretation
Define grounded theory research?
Grounded theory (GT) is a systematic methodology in the social sciences involving the construction of theory through methodic gathering and analysis of data.
The theory specifies the relationship between concepts in an organised manner and enables interpretation, explanation, and prediction
What does grounded theory research require?
Theoretical sensitivity
Theoretical sampling
Theoretical saturation
Grounded theory according to Strauss?
Reformulated’ grounded theory that
aims to develop and test theory and
provides specific techniques to
achieve this
Researcher is a co-constructor
Grounded theory according to Glaser
Classic’ grounded theory with focus on understanding the basic social psychological process underlying a phenomenon, and developing grounded hypotheses for testing in later research
Theory emerges from the data
(inductive)
What is the Constructionist approach to grounded theory? (Charmaz)
“Grounded theory must move on from its
positivist origins and incorporate many of the
methods and questions posed by
constructivists over the last twenty years to
become a more nuanced and reflexive
practice”
Data and theories are not ‘discovered’
Theories are constructed
What is Constant comparative method?
Method NOT methodology
Lite’ or ‘diet’ grounded theory
- A method not a methodology
- Use of theoretical sampling and grounded theory analysis techniques
- Applicable with smaller samples but is less likely to generate theory
What are the options for grounded theory research?
Classic (Glaserian) grounded theory
Reformulated (Straussian) grounded theory
Social constructionist (Charmazian) grounded theory
Constant comparative method (diet version)
Mix procedures
What is a casual layered analsysis?
An emerging interpretive methodology adopted in the social sciences as an approach to deconstruct complex social issues
What is the goal of CLA??
‘get to’ the root of the issue, it is argued that the real underpinnings of some social issues related to social and cultural mythologies, worldviews, and values
When do I use CLA?
When you have a wicked, or complex problem that you want to deconstruct
Multiple layers of complexity
When you want to propose a strategy or solution to an issue
ALOT OF WHY Q”S
Layers of the CLA and a breif description
Litany:
- The surface or visible issue. The obvious problem.
- Believed and rarely questioned
Social Causative:
- What is the social causes of the issue at hand?
- What are the social, economic, environmental, technical and political reasons contributing to the problem?
Worldview/Discourse:
Wordview = What are people’s underlying views of how the issue operates? How is an
issue socially constructed? The culture.
-Ideologies, beliefs and value systems which contribute or fuel a problem.
Help identify how thinking needs to be shifted.
Discourse=Discourses express a worldview through the sorts of words, terminology and phrases that are used.
- How do people talk about the issue at hand?
Myth/Metaphor
-This is an explanation of each worldview from the third
level
-Deep mythical stories
- Deeply held cultural archetypes
- Emotional experiences or responses to an issue
- The core narrative ( E.g., food as ‘fuel’, Body is a temple)
Why are there four levels in a CLA?
Each Layer serves to assist the researcher in
deconstructing an issue from four, increasingly complex
perspectives
Six steps of a CLA?
Step One: Considering your research question Step Two: Data familiarisatiom Step Three: Coding between the layers Step Four Coding Within the Layers Step Five: Reconstruction of the issue Step Six: Posing alternative futures
What is a case study?
case study is a research method involving an up-close, in-depth, and detailed examination of a subject of study, as well as its related contextual conditions
Characteristics of a case study?
A bounded system/s
Must be bounded such that there are clear parameters
unit of analysis in a case study may be a single case (withinsite; e.g., single program) or multiple cases
Case studies are rarely conducted in retrospec
When do I do a case study?
When there is little known about a phenomenon
When you wish to explore a phenomenon within its
natural context
Theory developement is in early stages
When context is really important
