Qualitative Research and Its Importance in Daily Life

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Are interested in undertaking the meaning people have constructed, that is, how people make sense of their world and the experiences they have in the word.

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Qualitative Researchers

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Based on qualitative data and trends to follow the exploratory mode of the scientific book. According to Denzin & Lincoln (2005), it is a situated activity that locates the observer in the world. It consists of a set of interpretive, material practices that makes the world visible.

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Qualitative Research

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Relies on the collection of qualitative data (i.e., non-numerical data such as words and pictures) and follows the other characteristics of the qualitative research.

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Qualitative Research

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Scientific Method of Qualitative Research

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exploratory or “bottom-up”

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Ontology of Qualitative Research

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subjective, mental, personal, and constructed

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Epistemology of Qualitative Research

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relativism; individual and group justification; varying standards

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View of human thought and Behavior of Qualitative Research

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situational, social, contextual, personal, and unpredictable

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Most common Qualitative research objectives

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qualitative/subjective description, empathetic understanding, and exploration

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Interest of Qualitative Research

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Understand and appreciate particular groups and individuals; inform local policy

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Focus of Qualitative Research

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wide angle and deep angle lens

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Nature of Observation of Qualitative Research

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Study groups and individuals in natural settings; attempt to understand insider’s views, meanings, and perspectives

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Form of data collected

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in-depth interviews, participant observation, field notes, and open-ended questions

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Nature of data

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words, images, categories

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Data analysis

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uses descriptive data

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Results

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Particularistic finding; provision of insider viewpoints

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Form of Final Report of Qualitative Research

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Informal narrative report with contextual description and direct quotations from research participants

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8 Kinds of Qualitative Research

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Phenomenology
Ethnography
Case Study
Grounded Theory
Historical Research
Inductive Thematic Analysis
Discourse/Conversation Analysis
Mixed Methods

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The key element of this research is the attempt to understand that people experience a certain phenomenon.

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Phenomenology

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It means “writing about people”. Researchers of this kind are interested in describing the culture of a group of people and learning to be a member of the group. The documentation focused on shared attitudes, values, norms, practices, patterns of interactions and languages of ethnic group.

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Ethnography

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The researcher provides a detailed account of one or more cases. It can be used for exploratory, descriptive, and explanatory research.

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Case Study Research

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A qualitative approach to generating and developing a theory from the data you collect in a research study. It uses an inductive approach for generating theories for explanation.

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Grounded Theory

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Grounded Theory is a methodology which was first laid out in 1967 by two researchers named?

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Glaser and Strauss

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It is a research about people, places and events in the past. This is sometimes called narrative research because it studies “the text of history”

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Historical Research

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It usually draws on inductive analytic methods (same as Grounded Theory). It also undertake on identifying and coding emergent themes within data.

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Inductive Thematic Analysis

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It is a study of “naturally occurring discourse”. It can range from conversation to public events to existing documents.

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Discourse/Conversation Analysis

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It is an integration of quantitative and qualitative research methods in one study.

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Mixed Methods