Chapter 4: Introduction to Qualitative Research Flashcards
What is the value structure of a person
Axiology
What is the communication of a researchers characteristics related to the study topic such as the researchers social status gender age, personal experiences and political party
Positioning
What is a researchers self awareness, understanding and acknowledgement of their personal biases and their influence on the topic and their personal biases and their influence on the topic and the participants.
Reflexivity
What is the study of the nature of being and existence and addresses questions such as what does it mean to exist and what is real
Ontology
What is the study of knowledge or how it is produced
Epistemology
What is the philosophical perspective consistent with different multiple subjective views of reality
Constructivism
What is the philosophy that supports different multiple subjective views of experiences that are co-constructed with others
Social construcitivism
Is a worldview for the research who is seeking to find a solution for the problem
Pragmatism
What is the extent to which a study was implemented consistently with the standard accepted by scientists
Rigor
What type of research describes the essence of experiences from the participants perspective or as frequently stated capture the lived experience
Phenomenological research
What is an experience of an individual or multiple individuals who have a similar experience
Phenomenon
What is defined as the blank tablet that a researcher attempts to create by suspending our automatic and deep seated belief in the mind-independent existence of reality
Epoche
What is setting asides one belief during qualitative research
Bracketing
What is articulating what is the phenomenon and what is not the phenomenon
Essence
What is removing the influence of your pre-understanding of the experience and focusing on the lived experiences of the participant
Reduction
What is the objective and subjective aspects of the situation are merged in the participants mind
Embodiment
What is the possibilities and limitations created by one’s position in history social and geographical locations and personal characteristics such as income and education
Situated freedom
What is defined as the interaction between persons subjectively encountering the objective world around them
Intersubjectivity
What type of research emphasize the importance of language and written texts
Hermeneutic phenomenological research
What type of research is an inductive research technique which is grounded in the concrete world as experienced by participants and can be linked to actual data
Grounded theory research
What type of research explores how your perceptions of your interactions with other shape your view of self
Symbolic interaction theory
What is the variation that focuses on nonhuman aspects of an experience such as built environments, plants animals an technology
Situational analysis
What research provides for studying cultures
Ethnographical Research
What is the insiders point of view known as regarding ethnographies
Emic perspective
What is the outsiders point of view known as regarding ethnographies
Etic perspective
A culture that has to be understood on its own terms is called
Cultural relativism
Which type of ethnography aims to describe a foreign culture through immersion in the culture for an extended period
Classical ethnography
What is the type of ethnography that explores and describes the structures of specific groups institutions, organizations and patterns of social interaction
Systematic ethnography
What is the type of ethnography that has the goal of understanding the values and thinking that result in behaviours and symbols of the values and thinking that result in behaviours and symbols of the people being studied
Interpretive ethnography
What is the type of ethnography that has a political purpose of increasing the awareness of imbalances of power
Critical ethnography
What type of research values the unique perspectives of groups of people within their cultural context that is influenced at the macro level by geographical location, political system and social structures.
Ethnonursing research
What are studies without an identified qualitative method
Exploratory-descriptive qualitative research
What type of study focuses on the stories of the participants as told through our collaboration with a story listener
Narrative inquiry