Qualitative Research Flashcards
Philosophical paradigms
A philosophical paradigm is the underlying basis that is used to construct research.
‘A basic belief system or world view that guides the investigation’
Paradigms
‘A set of assumptions about the social world, and about what constitutes proper techniques and topics for inquiring into that world’
What is a paradigms based off of
3 sets of ideas
-Ontology, the study of reality
-Epistemology, what can we know about reality?
-Methodology, how can we know about reality?
Ontology
The study of ‘being’
Poses the following questions-
What can be said to exist?
Is something fixed?
-differences between a pen- fixed and learning
Epistemology
The study of knowledge
-What can we know?
-What counts as knowledge?
-What is the relationship between the knower and what is known?
Methodology
Identifies the particular approach used to attain knowledge.
-How can the enquirer go about finding out what he/she believes can be known?
Methods refers to the tools use to generate data.
Positivism
Scientific truth can only be derived from what is observable from the human senses.
Pragmatism
Knowledge is justified through its utility or usefulness in the social world
Interpretivism
Human beings continuously interpret and make sense of the world
Pragmatism
Truth simply represents best understanding at the time: ‘a position that one comes to occupy’
Transformative tradition
‘Inquiry needs to be intertwined with politics and a political agenda that may change the lives of the participants, the institutions in which individuals work or live, and the researchers life’
Qualitative research
A particular tradition that fundamentally depends on watching people in their own territory, and interacting with them in their own language, on their own terms.
Interpretevism.
Umbrella term for a range of methodologies and methods.
Features of qualitative researchers
Reflexive
Develop explanations and theories in order to construct a valid account that can be used to guide knowledge development
They incorporate subjectivity
Acknowledge interaction between the researcher and the participants
Phenomenology
Understanding lived experience
Grounded theory
Developing a theory from the bottom up
Ethnography
Understand group or culture behaviour
Case study
In-dept, multifaceted understanding of a complex issue in its real world context
Narrative
I cover/ illuminate through stories of experience
Action research
Empowers others through care
