PR1 Reviewer Flashcards
This type of qualitative research usualy takes place in the field of social case, nursing, psychology, rehabilitation center, education, etc. This involves a long-time study of a person, group, organization, or situation. It seeks to find answer to why such thing occurs to the subject. Finding the reason/s behind such occurrence dives you to also delve into relationship of people related to the case under study, varieties of data collection methods such as an interviews questionnaires.
CASE STUDY
Falling in the field of anthropology, this is the study of a particualr cultural group to get a clean undertanding of its organizational set-up, internal operation, and lifestyle. A particular group reveals the nature or characteristics of their own culture through the world perceptions of the cultural groups members.
ETHNOGRAPHY
Coming from the word “phenomenon” which means something known through sensory experience. This also refers to the study of how people find their experiences meaningful. Its primary goal is to make people understand their experiences about death of loved ones, cure for handicapped persons. friendlines of people, etc. In doing so, other people will likewise understand the meaning attached to their experiences. Those engaged in assisting people to manage their own life properly often do this qualitative kind of research.
PHENOMENOLOGY
This is a method of qualitative research that requires an analysis or examination of the substances or content of the mode of communication (letters, books, journals, photos, video recording, SMS, online messages, emails, audio, visual materials, etc) used by a person, group, organization, or any institution that’s communicating. A study of language structures used in the medium of communication to discover the effects of sociological cutural institutional and ideological factors on the content makes it this type of qualitative research. In studyng the content or structures of the material you need a question or a set of question to guide you in your analysis.
CONTENT AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
Central to this qualitative research methods is the examination of primary documents to make you understand the connection of past event to the present time. The result of your content analysis will help you specify phenomenological changes in unchanged aspect of society through the years.
HISTORICAL ANALYSIS
Takes place when you discover a new theory to underlie your study at the time of data collection and analysis through your observation on your subject you will happen to find a theory that applies to your current study. Interviews, observation, and documentary analysis are the data gathering techniques for this type of qualitative research.
GROUNDER THEORY
Advantages or Strengths of Qualitative Research
- It adopts a naturalistic approach to its subject matter, which means that those involve in the research understand things based on what they find meaningful.
- It promotes a full understanding of human behavior or perceptions, traits, in their natural setting.
- It is instrumental for positive societal changes.
- It engenders respect for people’s individuality as it demands the researcher’s careful and attentive stand towards people’s world views.
- It is a way of understanding and interpreting social interactions.
- It increases the researcher’s interest in the study as it includes the researcher’s experience or background knowledge in interpreting verbal and visual data.
- It offers multiple ways of acquiring and examining knowledge about something.
Disadvantages or Weaknesses of Qualitative Research
- It involves a lot of researcher’s subjectivity in data analysis.
- It is hard to know the validity orvreliability of the data.
- It is open-ended questions yield “data overload” that requires long-time analysis.
- It is time-consuming.
- It involves several processes, which results greatly depend on the researcher’s views or interpretations.
