chap 12 Flashcards
Primary goal of qualitative sampling
who would be an information resource for study?
Convenience sample
includes volunteers to particpate
- 1st sampling tried
snowball samping
- referrals to people
- snowball sampling
- MAy give skewed samples
Purposiveness sampling
- is adopted after other methods that are tried first
- where researchers deliberalty pick particpants to find thos that are infomation rich
-Max variation sampling: selecting cases based on wide range of varaition - confriming cases: strengthen credibility
disconfriming cases challenge results
Theorretical
eleovling process and particpants are selcted as needed
Sample size fro qualitative studies occur
when data saturation occurs
- new info is acheived or redundancy occurs
Ethnography Sample
- narrow down to key informants
- main link
- meetings, events , people
Phenomenology
- sample of less than 10
- must have live phenomena and articulate that expereince
Groudded Theorry
- 20-30 people
theoretical sampling - convienet-> max variation -> data saturation-> confiming/ disconfiming cases
Data collection points
Longtudinal: ethnography
Cross- phenomenology
Both- GT
Interveiws
Unstructured: broad open ended questions common in ethno and phenomenon studies
Semistructured: have written topic guide, ask quesiton about each topic
Focus: 5-10 interviews to gather opinions uses a topic guide. some people may be less forthcoming
Dairies
- Rich personalized infor but unstructureal
- more common to focus ona specific topic for each entry
Photos
- uses photos to conduct an interview
- particpatory action research and ethnography
involves a particpate taking pphotos and interpreting them
Particapant observation
- researcher is involved in asking quesitons
- no limitations
- gorup in categories
Participant observation data
- Physical setting: main feature of a setting
- participants: wh osi present and characteristics
- activities: what is going
- Frequency and duration: when did activity begin and end is it reoccuring
Process: hows the activity organized
Outcomes: what happened what did not happen
Log
daily record of events
Field notes
- represents recorders observation to synthesize data
