Ch 4 The Role Of Interpretation Flashcards
On page 46 of the textbook we talk about an account of a street robbery whereby a man in the 60s details his witness to a Street robbery. I direct realist reading of the data would take the account provided by the witness how?
At face value and our analysis would be concerned with identifying patterns in his own and other peoples behaviours and reactions as described by the witness.
On page 46 of the textbook we talk about an account of a street robbery whereby a man in the 60s details his witness to a Street robbery. A critical realist interpretation of the data would take the account provided by the witness how?
They would not necessarily assume a straightforward relationship between the account and what really happened during the robbery. Here the researcher may make inferences about the underlying mechanisms which generate the account provided by the witness. For example, it could be that there was in fact no knife involved in the incident and that the fearful witness only thought that he saw a knife because that is what he expected to see in this situation.
On page 46 of the textbook we talk about an account of a street robbery whereby a man in the 60s details his witness to a Street robbery. Here the phenomenological researcher once the data to tell them something about …?
The quality and meaning of the witnesses experience of observing the attack on the girl .
On page 46 of the textbook we talk about an account of a street robbery whereby a man in the 60s details his witness to a Street robbery. In order to extract information about the experiential meanings contained within the account of the robbery, the phenomenological researcher Might pay particular attention to the way in which the witness …?
Foregrounds his own vulnerability by referring to himself as having a bad back, as being the 60s, and is not feeling as strong as he used to.
A social constructionist reading of the data in relation to the text account of the Street robbery will be interested in?
How the witness is constructing his experience of the robbery through available discursive resources.
In regards to the texts account of a street robbery, what types of questions would a social constructionist researcher ask of the data?
How languages use by the witness in his account and what kind of a version of events is produced as a result.
What to interpretive orientations does the text discuss?
Suspicious interpretation and empathic interpretation.
What is the goal of suspicious interpretation?
To reveal a hidden truth. It can be compared to detective work where the evidence at the scene of a crime must be interpreted in order to find out who committed the crime and why.
Finish this sentence. since suspicious interpretation requires that the evidence is decoded in someway so that it can be deciphered and translated back into its deeper meaning. This type of interpretation tends to be…?
Theory Driven
In terms of suspicious interpretation the fact that it is theory driven exposes a danger. What is this danger?
Since the usefulness and validity is presuppose there is a danger that suspicious interpretations impose meaning upon the data, making the data fit the theory.
What is the researches goal of empathic interpretation?
To get as close to the research participants experience as possible and try to understand it from ‘within’.
Finish this sentence empathic interpretation 6 to obtain a better understanding of the meaning which is contained within the data by engaging with what presents itself example takes an interview transcript without bringing theoretical concepts from the outside. Therefore, empathic interpretation does not…
Use theory in the same way as suspicious interpretation does.
Feeling the missing words. Empathic interpretations focus on what is…… rather than what might be …..
There
Hidden
The difference between suspicious and empathic interpretation is?
The former applies theoretical concepts in imported from outside of the data in order to make sense of the data or empathic interpretation attempts to draw out an explicate meaning that is implicit in the data.
using the phenomenological reading of the account of the street robbery, it was established that the witness foregrounded his physical vulnerabilities by referring to his bad back, his relatively advanced age, and the fact that he’s not as strong as he used to be. The empathic interpretation could argue what?
Although the witness does not state explicitly that he does not experience himself as a sort of person who is robust enough to challenge the robbers, it could be argued that this meaning is indeed implicit within what he is saying about himself.