CHAPTER 1 qualitative - about Q research Flashcards
What is epistemology - related to Q research?
0 How knowledge is developed or constructed
Epistemology concerns the nature of knowledge, including how it is constructed and how it can be acquired.
0 The epistemological assumption underlying qualitative research is that : knowledge is developed “through the subjective experiences of people.
0 It becomes important, then, to conduct studies in the ‘field,’ where the participants live and work”
Wat is ontology - related to Q research?
0 Ontology concerns the nature of being or reality.
0 In qualitative research, an ontological assumption is that there is not a single Truth or reality.
0 Researchers, participants, and readers have differing realities, and a goal of qualitative research is to engage with, understand, and report these multiple realities
Wat is positionality?
0 Positionality refers to the researcher’s role and social location/identity in relationship to the context and setting of the research.
0 For example, you could be a practitioner in the setting, located as an expert, an insider or outsider to the setting, a supervisor of employees, a member of community involved in the research, share a cultural or ethnic relationship with the participants, and so on.
What is methodology in kwalitative research?
0 Qualitative methodology refers to where ideology and epistemology meet research approach, design, methods, and implementation and shape the overall approach to the methods in a study.
0 including the related processes, understandings, theories, values, and beliefs that inform them.
0 This also refers to the ways in which your overall stance and approach to research - and your study specifically -shape your specific research methods to collect and analyze data (e.g., interviews, focus groups, specific analytic processes).
Wat zijn de 10 specifieke componenten van Q research?
- Natuurlijke settings - in the field > researcher present within community to observe, engage etc.
- Descriptief-analytisch - understanding, describing complex processes and meanings that people make in their experience
- Complex-contextualiserend - realiteit van participanten is contextueel, temporeel, en heel individueel - zelfs indien bepaalden ervaringen gedeeld worden
- Onderzoeker = instrument - subjectiviteit, sociale identiteit, positionaliteit invloed op gehele onderzoeksproces en uitkomsten
- Processueel-relationeel - de processen van het onderzoek (methoden, interpersonele relaties) het onderzoek vormgeven en betekenis creeren.
- Emergent -dichtbij ervaring blijven van participanten , niet rigide aan methoden houden. daarom ook emergent.
7 Betekenis(constructie) -diep investeren in gegrip van hoe betekenis wordt gegeven aan ervaringen, hoe die deels sociaal bepaald worden en beinvloed door grotere samenlevingsstructuren.
8 Inductief - data hebben voorang. theorie uitbouwen vanuit data. concepten en hypothesen worden gevormd door interactie met de participanten.
9 (Iteratief-)recursief -research involves a back and forth of processes and changes and evolves over time. a progressive, evolutionary refinement of your research at conceptual, theoretical, and methodological levels.
10 Ethisch -zie laatste hoofdstuk
Wat zijn de vier algemene componenten van Q research?
Criticality
Reflexivity
Collaboration
Rigor
Wat is criticality?
0 creating the conditions that allow researchers to engage, contextualize, and make meaning of the complexity of people’s lives, society, and the social, political, institutional, and economic forces that shape them.
0 This includes maintaining a fidelity to the complexity and layeredness of people’s complicated experiences, identifying and resisting hegemonic hierarchy and power asymmetries, working against binaries and deficit thinking
0 Criticality in qualitative research seeks to develop and serve as a counternarrative to dominant cultural knowledge and normative narratives that circulate in everyday life.
What is reflexivity?
0 reflexivity is the systematic assessment of your identity, positionality, and subjectivities.
0 It is an active and ongoing awareness and address of the researcher’s role and influence in the contribution to meaning and interpretation throughout the research process
0 Methodologically, a self-reflection of biases, theoretical preferences- selection of participants, personal experiences, relationships with participants,
0 frequently reassess your positionality and subjectivities
What is the role of collaboration?
0 Researchers should actively seek out people with whom we explore and challenge ourselves in ways impossible in the solitude and safety of our own minds.
0 dialogic engagement is a requirement of rigorous, reflexive and critical research.
0 Thought partners are people who can challenge you to see your self and your research from a variety of angles at various stages throughout the research process.
0 These people can include colleagues, advisers, peers, research team members, inquiry group members, and/or research
What is Rigor - or Rigoureusheid?
- important for good quality of research > truthfulness
- complexity and contextualization through the structure and strategic sequencing of methods
- Maintaining a fidelity to participants’ experiences through engaging in inductive (or what we think of as emergent design)
- Seeking to understand and represent as complex and contextualized a picture of people, contexts, events, and experiences as possible
- Transparently addressing the processes, challenges, and limitations of your study
recursiviteit is
Recursive: each step informs other steps
Qualitative research is recursive in that it builds and depends on all of its component parts. For example, your research questions are often informed by your personal and/or professional experiences, literature you have read, and the way you understand the world. Furthermore, as you begin to implement your research, the preliminary data you collect will also inform (and possibly lead you to refine) your research questions
