qualitative tests

Question 1

what is coding of transcripts?

Answer 1

focusing on both what is said and how it is said

Question 2

what is discursive repertoire?

Answer 2

ways of talking which people draw on to make sense of the world

Question 3

what is a deductive approach?

Answer 3

eg homlessness

focuses on identifying associations between homelessness and proposed casual factors at structural level

Question 4

what is an inductive approach?

Answer 4

focuses on the contested nature of the definition of what is being researched
focuses on meanings and interpretations people apply to homelessness

Question 5

what do qualitative methods do?

Answer 5

acknowledge identity, reflexivity, positionality situated knowledges (Haraway 1988)

Question 6

what might an anti-naturalist position argue about qualitative methods?

Answer 6

that they are better suited to explore the complexities of social life

Question 7

what theory does qualitative research use?

Answer 7

complexity theory as it opens up interesting questions

Question 8

how does the researcher affect the knowledge produced in the research?

Answer 8

their positionality shapes the knowledge

Question 9

cons of qualitative methods

Answer 9

• often reliant on using multiple forms of methods and are varying types of analysis and interpretation
• the research process is an embodied and often difficult experience

Question 10

what can qualitative research do?

Answer 10

• ask in-depth questions
• focus on experiences and relationships
• give voice to multiplicity/difference and order/ disorder
• ask questions about power relations
• explore meanings and experiences of space, place, time and scale
• give voice to non-scientific forms of knowledge

Question 11

why is qualitative research abductive?

Answer 11

it builds bridges between case materials and wider contexts

Question 12

examples of research using qualitative methods

Answer 12

• asylum seekers in EU
• energy use
• flooding in Somerset

Question 13

example of qualitative methods in time of crisis

Answer 13

Somerset flooding

• facebook hashtag
• interview- can be electronic by email and Facebook
• questionnaires and e-questionnaires
• digital ethnography gains insight into grassroots campaigning eg flood prevention work and land management- joining twitter groups allowed access to discussions

Question 14

ethnography

Answer 14

researchers observe/ interact with participants in their real-life environment

Question 15

focus groups

Answer 15

essentially a group convo that gathers people together based on their demographics

Question 16

archival work and secondary sources

Answer 16

provide contextual and historical information

Question 17

cons of digital ethnography

Answer 17

• access
• ethics
• data management
• mediated knowledge

Question 18

cons of interviews

Answer 18

• access
• ethics
• time management
• demographics

Question 19

Wengraf 2002

Answer 19

biographies are rooted in an analysis of social history and individual personality

Question 20

Herbert 2000

Answer 20

ethnographies are useful for uncovering the processes and meanings that underpin sociospatial life

Question 21

Butler

Answer 21

argues that participatory research includes diverse voices and understands varied ways of framing energy problems and solutions