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Qualitative Research Flashcards

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How is design different in quantitative and qualitative data?

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Quantitative
- fixed to control for extraneous variables

Qualitative
- flexible and responds to context

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How is data different in quantitative and qualitative data?

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Quantitative
- experimental design, structured interviews/surveys/observations

Qualitative
Unstructured or semi-structured interviews, unstructured observation and ‘artefacts’

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How is analysis different in quantitative and qualitative data?

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Quantitative
- uses frequencies and statistics

Qualitative
- non-numerical analysis of text and talk - focus on underlying meanings and patterns of relationships

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How is sample different in quantitative and qualitative data?

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Quantitative
- seeks to generalise

Qualitative
- depth of understanding rather than generalisability

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What is a paradigm

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A system of beliefs, values and dictates shared by researchers that influence what should be studied, how research should be done and how results should be interpreted

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What is ontology

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What exists and what is real

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What is epistemology

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What constitutes knowledge
How is knowledge acquired

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What is methodology

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What constitutes data
How should data be generated
How should data be analysed

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What are the types of paradigms in social research

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Realism and constructionism

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Is realism quantitative or qualitative

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Quantitative

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Is constructionism quantitative or qualitative

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Qualitative

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What is ontology in realism

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Laws of nature constitute reality

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What is epistemology in realism

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Measurable and observable proof

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What is methodology in realism

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Analysis of experiments, surveys and structured observations

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What is ontology in constructionism

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Reality is locally (co) constructed

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What is epistemology in constructionism

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Knowledge is a social product

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What is methodology in constructionism

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Analysis of unstructured observation, semi- or unstructured interviews, artefacts

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What is deductive reasoning

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Quantitative design
Top-down approach
Develop it read about a theory
Formulate specific hypothesis to be tested
Collect data to thermodynamics a theory/hypothesis
Obtain information (or not) of theory

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What is inductive reasoning

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Qualitative design
Bottom up approach
Open ended and explatory
Make some observations
Formulate a tentative interpretation
Develop theory

20
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Limits it induction

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Observation is theoretically informed

21
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Limits it deduction

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Theories may not account for the diversity of a phenomenon
Theoretical determinism

22
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What is qualitative research

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Aims to explore and understand (often complex) experiences, practices and meanings

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