Other Qualitative approaches

Question 1

What are the other approaches to qualitative research?

Answer 1

other qualitative approaches include: 
Interpretative phenomenological analysis 
content analysis 
discourse analysis
grounded theory

Question 2

What does IPA stand for?

Answer 2

IPA stands for interpretative phenomenological analysis, it is a qualitative approach that focuses on understanding a person’s experiences and perceptions. Interpretative phenomenological analysis has a inductive idiographic approach as it focuses on individuals experiences and perceptions.

Question 3

What type of approach does Interpretative phenomenological analysis have?

Answer 3

IPA or interpretative phenomenological analysis has a inductive idiographic approach as it focuses on understanding a person’s experiences and perceptions.

Question 4

What does Interpretative phenomenological analysis focus on?

Answer 4

Interpretative phenomenological analysis focuses on understanding individuals experiences and perceptions because it has an inductive idiographic approach.

Question 5

What is IPA interested in?

Answer 5

IPA or interpretative phenomenological analysis is interested in how an individual makes sense or understands an event or experience in a given context.

Question 6

What does IPA try to find?

Answer 6

Interpretative phenomenological analysis tries to find common features in an event among different interviews.

Question 7

How would you describe IPA?

Answer 7

Interpretative phenomenological analysis is subjective as it focuses on individuals experiences and perceptions.

Question 8

What is the sample like in IPA?

Answer 8

The sample in Interpretative phenomenological analysis is a small sample size and it contains homogeneous individuals to understand an experience that means the sample includes similar individuals.

Question 9

What is the data like in IPA?

Answer 9

The data in interpretative phenomenological analysis includes interviews or observations. probes are used for participants to elaborate. In interpretative phenomenological analysis an analytical method is used which means we go and back and forward with the data. IPA provides detailed account of a person’s experiences and perceptions

Question 10

What does IPA provide?

Answer 10

interpretative phenomenological analysis is a qualitative approach that provides a detailed account of a person’s lived experiences. IPA is an inductive idiographic approach and tries to identify common features in an event. IPA tries to understand how a person makes sense or understand an experience in a given context.

Question 11

Definition of content analysis.

Answer 11

content analysis places importance to the number of occurrences of things or themes.

Question 12

What are the types of content analysis?

Answer 12

there are two types of content analysis including qualitative content analysis and quantitative content analysis.

quantitative content analysis = apply categories and count number of times they are used in a text. Frequencies are applied. Quantitative content analysis is not open to interpretation.

qualitative content analysis = comes up with a coding scheme.

Question 13

What does quantitative content analysis use?

Answer 13

quantitative content analysis uses frequencies. Quantitative content analysis works by applying categories and counting number of times they occur in a text. Then frequencies are applied. quantitative content analysis is not as open to interpretation.

Question 14

How do you do quantitative content analysis?

Answer 14

quantitative content analysis uses frequencies. It works by applying categories and counting number of times they occur in a text. Then frequencies are applied. Quantitative content analysis is not open to interpretation.

Question 15

What does qualitative content analysis use?

Answer 15

qualitative content analysis uses a coding scheme.

Question 16

How do you do qualitative content analysis?

Answer 16

Qualitative content analysis comes up with a coding scheme.

Question 17

What is the difference between qualitative content analysis and quantitative content analysis?

Answer 17

The difference between quantitative content analysis and qualitative content analysis is that quantitative content analysis is not open to interpretation but qualitative content analysis is open to interpretation.

Question 18

Why is content analysis useful?

Answer 18

content analysis is useful because it gives us a broad understanding of a topic. It is also useful for a large amount of data.

Question 19

What is the sample like in content analysis?

Answer 19

The sample size in content analysis is big. so content analysis is useful for analysing large amount of data.

Question 20

What is the data like in content analysis?

Answer 20

you can use content analysis for survey, newspaper, text and image.

Question 21

How do you analyse content analysis?

Answer 21

Content analysis is analysed by coding for qualitative research. It is important data is coded by two different people. Also, coding must be consistent between and within coders.

Question 22

What is important when coding in content analysis?

Answer 22

When coding in content analysis it is important for two different people to code the data. Also, coding must remain consistent between and within coders.

Question 23

Definition of discourse analysis.

Answer 23

Discourse analysis believe that language and words are meaningless but we give them meaning.

Question 24

What does discourse analysis believe?

Answer 24

Discourse analysis believe that words and language and meaningless but we give them meaning.
Also, discourse analysis believes that individuals use language to present themselves.

Question 25

What is the research question about in discourse analysis?

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Research question in discourse analysis is about how our identity, knowledge and meaning is constructed through our use of language.

Question 26

What is the sample like in discourse analysis?

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sample size can vary in discourse analysis but the sample uses different types of people to understand variation across people and context.

Question 27

What type of people are used in discourse analysis sample?

Answer 27

In discourse analysis, the sample size varies but different types of people are used in each sample to understand variation.

Question 28

What type of data is used in discourse analysis?

Answer 28

Discourse analysis believe that words and language are meaningless but we give them meaning. It believes that individuals use language to present themselves. The sample size may vary but different types of people are used in the sample to understand variation. Research question in discourse analysis is about how our identity, knowledge and meaning is constructed through the use of language. in discourse analysis, we do coding but the coding is focused on language. The type of data in discourse analysis include interviews, observations, analysis of text.

Question 29

What does discourse analysis believe in terms of language?

Answer 29

Discourse analysis believe that language is meaningless and that we give it meaning. Research question in discourse analysis is about how our identity, knowledge and meaning is constructed through the use of language. In the sample, the sample size may vary but different types of people may be used each sample to understand variation. Discourse analysis believe that people use language to present themselves. Coding is used in discourse analysis but the coding is focused on language. The type of data that is used in discourse analysis include interviews, observations and analysis of text.

Question 30

Definition of grounded theory.

Answer 30

Grounded theory is based in sociological roots. Grounded theory is about how we as social beings, interact and behave.

Question 31

what is grounded theory based on?

Answer 31

Grounded theory is based in sociological roots - it is about how we as social beings interact and behaviour.

Question 32

What is the aim of the grounded theory?

Answer 32

The aim of grounded theory is to generate a theory.

Question 33

What are the 6 c’s of social processes?

Answer 33

The 6 c’s of social processes include:

• cause
• context
• consequence
• condition
• contingencies
• covariance

Question 34

What do you observe in grounded theory?

Answer 34

In grounded theory, you observe speech patterns and behaviour.

Question 35

How does grounded theory work?

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Grounded theory is an inductive process so data driven. Firstly, look at each individual case then identify patterns in the data in order to generate a theory.

Question 36

What should the data be like for grounded theory?

Answer 36

In grounded theory, data is rich and thick so we collect a lot of information from participants.

Question 37

What is the sample like in grounded theory?

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In grounded theory, we use theoretical sampling which is a way of reviewing data to find gaps in the data and including new needed information by adding new participants or modifying interview.

Question 38

Definition of theoretical sampling.

Answer 38

Theoretical sampling is reviewing the data and finding gaps in the data to include new needed information by recruiting new participants or modifying interview.

Question 39

What does grounded theory use?

Answer 39

Grounded theory uses theoretical sampling and saturation. Theoretical sampling is a way of reviewing data to find gaps in the data and including new needed information by modifying interview or adding new information. Also, grounded theory uses saturation which is when you keep analysing information until you find nothing new. This means that grounded theory generates a lot of data. Grounded theory does constant comparision which means identifying patterns in data by checking for similarities and differences in the data and constantly comparing through the data. In grounded theory, the researcher constantly checks and rechecks for consistency.

Question 40

Definition of saturation.

Answer 40

Saturation means you keep analysing until you find nothing new. the aim of grounded theory is to reach saturation so grounded theory generates a lot of data and it can be time consuming.

Question 41

How much data does grounded theory generate?

Answer 41

The aim of grounded theory is to reach saturation which means you keep analysing until you don’t find anything new so grounded theory generates a lot of data and this can be very time consuming.

Question 42

What is coding like in grounded theory?

Answer 42

coding in grounded theory is based on sociology.

Question 43

What do you do when you carry out grounded theory?

Answer 43

In grounded theory, you do constant comparison which helps to identify patterns in data, by looking for similarities and differences in data and constantly comparing throughout data. also, research constantly checks and rechecks data for consistency.

Question 44

What is the research question in grounded theory?

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The research question in grounded theory is about how social processes and social structures are achieved by social interactions. In the research question, we have to think of the 6 c’s of social processes including context, cause, condition, consequence, contingencies, covariance.