Qualitative Research Flashcards

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Qualitative Research

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Seeks to describe the complex nature of humans and how individuals perceive their own experiences within a specific social context

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Assumtions of Quantitative Research

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  • One objective Reality
  • Value free
  • Causal
  • Generalizable
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Assumptions of Qualitative Research

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  • Multiple realities
  • Value bound
  • non-causal
  • situation specific
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Grounded Theory

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  • Allows the researcher to develop a hypothesis as the data unfolds
  • Exploratory with few predetermined expectations
  • Goal is to create a theory
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Syllogism

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Major premise - minor premise - conclusion

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Qualitative Research and Inductive Reasoning

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Qualitative research is an inductive process. Research is a creative process. Qualitative research can induce ideas or variables that can be quantified measured or tested.

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Phenomenology

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  • Study of essences - what it’s like to be human
  • Operates on principle of recognizing the existence of freedom in human life
  • Description of experiential meanings we live as we live them
  • Search for what it means to be human
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