Session 1

Question 1

3 distinctive features of qualitative research

Answer 1

inductive, interpretivist, constructionist

Question 2

Inductive

Answer 2

research comes first and theory follows

Question 3

interpretivist

Answer 3

focus on understanding social world via interpretations that humans make of it

Question 4

constructionist

Answer 4

social realities exist as the result of the interactions of individuals
not “things”

Question 5

deductive approach

Answer 5

begins from existing theories or hypotheses

Question 6

abductive approach

Answer 6

middle ground
collecting data about how participants see the world is the point of departure
borrow from existing literature
back and forth between data and theory

Question 7

Data research methods

Answer 7

data as observation, data as talk, data as text

Question 8

Data as observation

Answer 8

ethnography
participant observation

Question 9

Data as talk

Answer 9

in-depth interviewing
focus groups

Question 10

Data as text

Answer 10

archival research (texts and documents)