Qualitative methods Flashcards
Discourse analysis
o Explore how language is used
IPA
(interpretative phenomenological analysis)
o Identify themes emerging from accounts
Narrative analysis
o Understand stories
Conversation analysis
Examine talk
Visual analysis
Explore meanings in pictures
Positive ethics
Much contemporary practical ethics is negative, in the sense that it focuses on what one is and is not prohibited from doing. What is often neglected is the positive side of ethics: issues concerning how one, as a researcher, can best act so as to make the research beneficial to the participants and to society.
Reflexivity
Involves reflecting on the way in which research is carried out and understanding how the process of doing research shapes its outcomes
When reporting your findings, what steps will you take to make your own role, and that of the method explicit?
Inductive approach
Inductive approach, also known in inductive reasoning, starts with the observations and theories are proposed towards the end of the research process as a result of observations.
Grounded theory
Theory is developed from data generated by a series of observations or interviews principally involving an inductive approach.
Ethnography
the scientific description of peoples and cultures with their customs, habits, and mutual differences
Kappa statistic
Cohen’s kappa coefficient (κ) is a statistic which measures inter-rater agreement for qualitative (categorical) items. It is generally thought to be a more robust measure than simple percent agreement calculation, as κ takes into account the possibility of the agreement occurring by chance.
Naïve empiricism
Naive empiricism stresses the importance of relying on empirical observations about the world and not our interpretations of those observations. For example, conducting visual analysis without considering the context in which the pictures were produced.
Grounded theory coding
Stops when theoretical saturation has been reached
