Unit 8: Qualitative Research Design

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emergent design

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a qualitative design that emerges as researchers make ongoing decisions reflecting what has already been learned

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characteristics of qualitative design

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> flexible
researcher are intensely involved
ongoing analysis

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bricolage

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tend to put together a complex array of data from various sources
>adept at performing a large # of diverse task ranging from interviewing to observing, to interpreting personal and historical documents, to intensive reflection a introspection

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qualitative design and advance planning

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selection of the research tradition
>selection of a study site and identification of setting
>identification of the key gatekeepers
>determination of the maximum time available
identification of all needed equipment for the collection and analysis of data
>analysis of their own biases and ideology

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anthroplogy

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> > Discipline: anthropology domain: culture research tradition: ethnography Area of inquiry::holistic view, mapping of the cognitive world of a culture a culture’s shared meanings, semantic rules

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psychology/philosophy`

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domain: lived experience
research tradition: phenomenology/ hermeneutics
area of inquiry: experiences of individual within their life world interpretation and meanings of individuals’ experience

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psychology

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domain: behavior and events
research tradition: ethology/ecologic psychology
area of inquiry: behavior observed over time in natural context behavior as influenced by the environment

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sociology

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domain social settings
research tradition: GT/ethno
area of inquiry social structure processes within a social settings manner by which shared agreement is achieved in social settings

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socialinguistic

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domain: human communication
research tradition: discourse analysis
area of inquiry: forms and rules of conversation

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history

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domain: past behavior
research tradition: discourse analysis
area of inquiry: description and interpretation of historical events

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ethnography is

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primary research tradition within anthropology and provides a framework for studying the meanings, patterns, and experience of a defined cultural group in a holistic fashion
>involve the description and interpretation of cultural behaviors

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ethnosciene

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focuses on the cognitive world of a culture, with particular emphasis on the semantic rules and the shared meanings that shape behavior

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hermeneutics

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which uses the lived experiences of people as a tool to netter understand the social, political, and historical context in which these experiences occur

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ethology

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which is sometimes described as the biology of human behavior studies behavior as it evolves in its natural context

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sociology

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study the social world and here developed several research tradition of importance to qualitative researchers

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ethnomethodology

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seeks to discover how people make sense of everyday activities and interpret their social world so as to behave in socially acceptable ways

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discourse analysis

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typically are transcripts from naturally occurring conversation, such as those between nurses and their patients, but can also include images, magazine and newspaper articles, documents, and field notes.

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historical research

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the systematic collection and critical evaluation of data relating to past occurrences

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emic prespective

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is the way members of the culture envision their world- the insider view

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etic perspective

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is the outsiders interpretation of the cultures experiences

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tacit knowledge

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information about the culture that is so deeply embedded in cultural experiences that members do not talk about it or may not even be consciously aware of it

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three type of ethno

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behavior, artifacts and speech

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participants observation

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in which they make observation of a community or group while participating on its activites

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phenomenology

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approach to thinking about people’s life experiences,

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being in the world

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is a concept that acknowledges people’s physical ties to their world- they think see hear feel and are conscious through their bodies interaction with the world

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two main schools of phenomenology

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descriptive and interpretive

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descriptive phenomenology

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insist on the careful description of ordinary conscious experience of everyday life- a description of things as people experience them

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bracketing

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refers to the process of identifying and holding in abeyance preconceived beliefs about the phenomenon under study

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intuition

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occurs when researcher remain open to the meanings attributed to the phenomenon by those who have experienced it

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interpretive phenomenology

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basic characteristic of human existence, the goals of interpretive phenomenological research are to enter another’s world and to discover the practical wisdom possibilities and understandings found there

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GT

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studies social process and structures, conduct of field research
> fundamental feature of grounded theory research is that data collection, data analysis, and sampling of participation occur simultaneously

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constant comparison

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is used to identify the basic problem and to develop and refine a theoretically relevant categories

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types of GT

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substantive theory and grounded theory

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substantive theory

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is grounded in data on a specific substantive area

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final grounded thoery

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which involves developing a higher, more abstract level of the theory from a complication of substantive grounded theory studies regarding a particular phenomenon

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critical theory

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typically action orientated. foster enlighten self knowledge and sociopolitical action
> begins with thorough analysis of certain aspects of a problem
» plays a important role in ethno

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feminist research

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uses approaches that are similar to those of critical theory research, but it focuses sharply on gender domination and discrimination

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participatory action research (PAR)

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participatory is to produce not only knowledge but also action and consciousness-raising

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studies that are typically quantitative

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clinical trails
evaluation
outcomes research
surveys

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studies that are qualitative or quantitative

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case studies

secondary analysis methodologic research

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mixed method studies

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> > rationale
- complementarity
-incremental
-enhance validity
- creating new frontiers
application of mixed method research
-instrumentation
- hypothesis generation
- illustration
-understanding relationships
- theory building, testing and refinement
Mixed method strategies
- adding qualitative methods to a survey
-embedding quantitative measures into an ethno
- embedding qualitative approaches into experimental research

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process or implementation analyses

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describe the process by which a program get implemented an dhow it functions in practice

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outcome analyses

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described the status of some condition after the introduction of an intervention

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impact analyses

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test whether an intervention caused any net effects relative to a counterfactual

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cost benefit analyses

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examine whether the monetary costs of a program are outweighed by benefits

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outcome research

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is undertaken to document the quality and effectiveness of health care and nursing services