LESSON 18-21 QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

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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.

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Qualitative Interviewing

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are an organized, collective activity that provides an interactiv e participation among its participants.

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Focus Groups

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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.

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Focus Groups

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The study of cultures. require the “be part researcher to not just “observe from the distance” but rather of the culture” they are observing.

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Ethnography

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The researcher is not just a guest in the community but rather must live as part of it.

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Immersion

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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

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Thematic analysis

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A reaction to the large-scale social theory of sociology prior to the 1960s. It provided rigorous methodological procedures for theory building.

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Grounded theory

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The idea of speech as action as well as Foucault’s approach to social systems

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Discourse analysis

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Adopts a strongly ethnomethodological approach to language in its attempt to understand conversation as a skilled performance

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Conversation analysis

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Strongly based on phenomenology and a number of related approaches. It concentrates on experiences as experienced by the individual.

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Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

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Concentrates on life-story data which it interprets from a critical realist perspective

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Narrative psychology

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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.

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Phenomenology

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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.

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Transcriptions

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refers to the physical space between persons during a conversation

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Proxemic Communication

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refers to the range of body movements and postures which may reveal more than the spoken words does

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Kinesic Communication

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includes the changes in volume, pitch and other characteristics of the voice,

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Paralinguistic Communication

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refers to the pace of speech and the silences which are introduced into speech

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Chronemic Communication

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The characteristics of the data and the coding guided by careful analysis

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Data-Led

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Initial coding was suggested by key element of the theory

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Theory-Led

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Form of analysis which is dependent on the ideas

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Narrative Analysis

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The analysis of language at a level beyond individual words

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Social Constructionist Discourse Analysis

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Narrator’s lived experience

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Personal Level

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Narrative is seen jointly created

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Interpersonal Level

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Social position of narrator and the hearer

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Positional Level

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Narratives are shared by the members of society

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Societal Level