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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