Qualitative Design Flashcards
A qualitative data collection method that may include structured, semi-structured, or open-ended interviews.
In-depth Interviews
Those who are studied—members of oppressed groups—maintain substantial control over the study from start to finish.
Action Research
A type of qualitative method that seeks to describe the meaning of the everyday “lived experience,” a concept or phenomenon (e.g., The experience of being addicted to crack–desperation in getting one’s next hit.)
Phenomenology
____ are examples of qualitative data collection methods.
Historical accounts, focus groups, in-depth interviews.
The researcher uses participation to gain access to members of a group or organization to observe behavior as it occurs and also to build relationships of personal trust needed to elicit full and reasonably frank interview material.
Participatory Research
A qualitative technique that uses organized group discussions with selected individuals, to gain info on a topic.
Focus Group
The study of a culture, with the goal to describe the way of life of a particular group from within by understanding and communicating not only what happens, but how the members of the group interpret and understand what happens.
e.g., The culture of crack houses (language & etiquette).
Ethnography
A qualitative data collection method that may include recording info in the form of chronological events.
Log books/case notes, field books.
A type of qualitative method that generates or discovers a theory from data. “Theory is grounded in the data” because the tentative theory is derived from the data.
e.g., Who, what, where, why becomes addicted to crack.
Grounded Theory
A qualitative data collection method that may include observational schedules, charts, maps, inventories, random occurrences, or audio/visual recordings.
Observation
A qualitative data collection method that includes using non-reactive measures in which the research and participants do not directly interact with each other.
Unobtrusive measures
