Week 1 Flashcards
What is qualitative research?
Qualitative research designs are research that analyzes trends or themes described in words.
How does quantitative research take a deductive approach?
By starting with a specific theory or hypothesis, collecting numerical data to test and analyze the hypothesis statistically, and then drawing (or deducing) conclusions based on the results. Deduve specific outcomes from a general idea.
How does qualitative research take an inductive approach?
Collects data first then finds a pattern to create new theories or general ideas, inducing general conclusions from specific observations and data.
What is an inductive approach?
Starts with specific data or observations, then researchers induce general ideas or theories from these observations, finding patterns to develop broader conclusions.
Moves from specific details to a general idea.
What is a deductive approach?
Starts with a general idea or theory, researchers deduce specific predictions and then collect data to see if those predictions are correct.
Moves from a broad idea to a specific conclusion.
Quantitative researchers tend to emphasize data into ________________ while qualitative researchers emphasize data into _________________.
Numbers
Words
What tends to be a difference between qualitative and quantitative research in sample sizes?
Quantitative tends to have larger sample sizes than qualitative due to emphasis on quantity for validity while qualitative is more focused on quality of extracting research and information from the smaller group.
Why is a large sample size for qualitative research often impractical?
Qualitative researchers must delve into the thoughts and feelings of subjects.
Therefore, a large sample size is generally impractical.
What are the 3 qualitative research design methods?
- Document or content analysis
- Case studies
- Ethnographic studies
What is Realism?
There is an external reality that exists beyond the individual who is attempting to understand it.
What is Idealism?
There is no reality outside our own subjective understanding and sense-making.
What is Materialism?
There are physical and economic structures existing independently of the individual that constitute and organise the social world, and which place limits on individual agency.
What is Ontology?
Study of the nature of existence and reality, what it means for something to “Be”
What is ontology in the social sciences?
‘What is the nature of the (social) world?’ In the social sciences, ontology requires researchers to consider whether the social phenomena they are studying are inde- pendent of human thinking and interpretation, or whether such phe- nomena exist only as a result of a process of construction by researchers.
What is another name for an idealist?
Anti-realist