Week 4: Integrity in Qual Research

Question 1

Phenomenology

Answer 1

questions about meaning and the core essence of phenomena or experiences, descriptive, reflective, interpretive and engaging mode of inquiry
4 essentials
theming and philosophical

Question 2

4 Existentials of Phenomenology

Answer 2

Temporality - lived time
Spatiality - lived experience
Corporeality - lived body
Relationality/Community - lived human relations

Question 3

Ethnography

Answer 3

observational questions and descriptive questions about values, beliefs, and practices of a cultural group from cultural anthropology
generalizing approach to developing concepts and understanding human behavior from an insiders POV

Question 4

Thick Description

Answer 4

interpretive science that searches for meaning within cultural norms, patterned behaviors and contexts

Question 5

Grounded Theory

Answer 5

process questions about changing experience over time or its stages and phases or understanding questions
theoretical sensitivity, developing concepts, coding categories and focused meaning

Question 6

Methodological Purposiveness

Answer 6

always a best practice with various purposes that links to method to get the project going, the purpose leads to focus in research and method choosing

Question 7

Methodological Congruence

Answer 7

the fit between the research problem and the question, fit between the research and the method of data
each method is a distinctive way of approaching the world and data as the project entails a congruent way of thinking

Question 8

Criteria of Locating Oneself to Topic

Answer 8

already in there
gap in lit
another way of thinking and looking in needed
what is going on there
supplementing quantitative inquiry

Question 9

Criteria for Qualitative Methods

Answer 9

meeting and coding data as the records are created
recording reflections and insights
sorting and shifting through data to find similarities and patterns
gradually elaborating a small set of generalizations
seeking patterns or processes, commonalities, and differences
confronting these generalizations within a formal body of knowledge in the form of constructs or theories

Question 10

Experience

Answer 10

an individual’s perspective of their presence in the world at the moment when things are constituted