Qualitative 1 Flashcards
(13 cards)
What is is Qualitative?
Focus on subjective, how do people experience this??
How do researches account for their own subjectivity?
What the characteristics of Qualitative Research??
A broad church: non - restrictive
Focus on subjectivity: all participants including researcher
Context - dependent
Holistic perspective
Interest in process
Flexibility in research process
Participant not subjects
What is realistic?
Discovering knowledge
Something is true it will be the same for all observers at all times
Humans subjective will lead us to error and must be taken into account
What is interpretivist?
All participants are consciously interpreting the world revealing multiple persuasive/valuable
What is post - modernist??
Knowledge as discursive construction.
Distrust of language as clear, focus an function of knowledge claims, variability and contradiction
What is critical
Power imbuses all knowledge, power relations influence who is heard and not heard, may explore who benefits, who benefits, who suffers.
What is the appropriate method for qualitative??
Different evidence:
Empirical material (Data) Text, documents, image (observation and action) Not number or ratings
Participants:
Specific group in context
Not large random sample of general population
Analysis:
Explore themes, contradictions, interactive
Not counting
Interpretation:
Links to back to theory and develop theory
Analysing qualitative data??
True claims:
This is what happened (realist)?
This is on understanding of what happened (interpretivist) ?
This is an account of what happen(discursive)?
This is who benefited, spoken and was heard (critical) ?
Justify theses claims?
What evidence do you have?
How did you analyse it?
Qualitative Methods of Data Collection
Individual:
Open ended survey
Interviews
Dairies
Group:
Focus groups
Pictorial analysis
Organisational:
Cases studies
Ethnography
Action research
Cultural: Observation Documents Websites TV novels
Dairies???
Good for collecting longitudinal data and events as they occur
Design issues included period and times of completion
Major issues is attrition
Interviews???
Good for in depth exploration
Extremely flexible
May uses specific conceptual bases e.g reps grids, critical incident analysis, narrative analysis
Focus groups?
Good for collecting share views
Design issues include nature of group takes
Major issues is group membership and management of group dynamics
What is Research
Systematic approach to expand knowledge of social or organisational process
