LESSON 18-21 QUALITATIVE RESEARCH Flashcards
characteristically involves questions and probes by the interviewer designed to encourage the interviewee to talk freely and extensively about the topic(s) defined by the researcher.
Qualitative Interviewing
are an organized, collective activity that provides an interactiv e participation among its participants.
Focus Groups
best used when our research aims to highlight the opinions of people on a certain discussion topic and allows the capture of group responses on certain opinions, beliefs, feelings and experiences.
Focus Groups
The study of cultures. require the “be part researcher to not just “observe from the distance” but rather of the culture” they are observing.
Ethnography
The researcher is not just a guest in the community but rather must live as part of it.
Immersion
relatively unspecific other than it follows the broad general features of qualitative approaches; attempt to come up with limited number of categories or theme to describe data
Thematic analysis
A reaction to the large-scale social theory of sociology prior to the 1960s. It provided rigorous methodological procedures for theory building.
Grounded theory
The idea of speech as action as well as Foucault’s approach to social systems
Discourse analysis
Adopts a strongly ethnomethodological approach to language in its attempt to understand conversation as a skilled performance
Conversation analysis
Strongly based on phenomenology and a number of related approaches. It concentrates on experiences as experienced by the individual.
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
Concentrates on life-story data which it interprets from a critical realist perspective
Narrative psychology
The philosophical system of Edmund Husserl which has found Expression in psychology as phenomenological psychology. This involves a variety of methods which adhere, to differing extents, to Husserl’s philosophy.
Phenomenology
the process of turning sound (and video) recordings into written text prior to further analysis of the mate rials. Transcribing recordings are tedious and time consuming.
Transcriptions
refers to the physical space between persons during a conversation
Proxemic Communication
refers to the range of body movements and postures which may reveal more than the spoken words does
Kinesic Communication
includes the changes in volume, pitch and other characteristics of the voice,
Paralinguistic Communication
refers to the pace of speech and the silences which are introduced into speech
Chronemic Communication
The characteristics of the data and the coding guided by careful analysis
Data-Led
Initial coding was suggested by key element of the theory
Theory-Led
Form of analysis which is dependent on the ideas
Narrative Analysis
The analysis of language at a level beyond individual words
Social Constructionist Discourse Analysis
Narrator’s lived experience
Personal Level
Narrative is seen jointly created
Interpersonal Level
Social position of narrator and the hearer
Positional Level
Narratives are shared by the members of society
Societal Level
