Developments in Thematic Analysis Flashcards

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what is thematic analysis the foundation for?

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qualitative analyses used to identify meaningful themes in order to understand social talk

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what do themes consist of?

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recurrent ideas, topics, and statements that generate a pattern to add to experiences

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what is epistemology?

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nature of knowledge

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approaches of epistemology

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positivism
contextualism
social constructionism

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what does positivism believe about human experience?

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that it is knowledgeable, and research investigates the truth

knowledge is inert and impartial

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what does contextualism necessitate?

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the need for contextualisation of behaviour, as there is no single reality

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what does social constructionism use?

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research to investigate accounts, as knowledge is active and reconstructed through language

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what is ontology?

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nature of reality

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approaches of ontology

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realism
critical realism
relativism

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what does realism argue exists?

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a pre-social reality exists, that can be fully accessed through research

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what does critical realism believe?

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a pre-social reality can only ever be partially known

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what does relativism state?

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reality is dependent on the ways we come to know it

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13
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issues with thematic analysis

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  • coding reliability measures
  • a mashing of other approaches
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what does reflexive thematic analysis offer?

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a focus on deliberate methodological decisions that allow for exploration on the position of the researcher, in relation to the topic of study

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how can reflexive TA be conceptualised?

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using a ‘big q’ organic/inductive method to explore meaning construction

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interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA)

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attempts to understand experiences from participants’ perspectives through descriptive, linguistic, and conceptual comments

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discourse analysis (DA)

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considers talk as social action which allows people to convey their social position

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conversational analysis

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focuses on how interactions are represented via talk and in naturally occurring conversations

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grounded theory

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involves the identification of a model generated from the data, with no preconcieved ideas on what might be found

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content analysis

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uses a count frequency of pre-defined behaviour

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what is IPA flexible to?

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researcher positionalirty and adheres to a set of philosophical assumptions

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what does IPA focus on?

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personal experience and meaning-making, using small homogenous samples

this allows depth of interpretation and consideration of broader social structures

23
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how is researcher subjectivity explained in IPA?

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the double hermeneutic

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first hermeneutic…

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participants making sense of their experiences

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second hermeneutic...
researcher making sense of the participants' sense-making
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differences between TA and IPA
IPA tends to be more detailed and draw on metaphor, psychological processes, and language use
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what is DA influenced by?
the process is heavily influenced by theories and concepts
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what does DA involve?
multiple iterations which range from specific focus on language use, to a broader approach where language represents social discourses
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differences between TA and DA
TA coding follows a more inductive, practice-based approach to interpret data, whereas DA draws on the specific functions of language use