Qualitative Research (word-social-flexible) - ANS - Word science > relies on the words of people
- Focus on social world > Subjective human experience
- Flexible and fluid > meaning/ interpretation
Methodological Frameworks (6): EPSHFP - ANS - Ethnography
- Phenom...
Methodological Frameworks: Ethnography - ANS Study of culture
Methodological Frameworks: Phenomenology - ANS How individuals experience things
Methodological Frameworks: Symbolic Interactionism - ANS Subjective meaning
individuals attribute to activities & environments
Methodological Frameworks: Hermeneutics - ANS Language is the essence of
understanding
Methodological Frameworks: Feminist Methodology - ANS - About women, for women
- Legitimize women's experiences
Methodological Frameworks: Postmodernism - ANS - Rejection of the idea that there is a
single reality or truth
Sampling Strategies (PCTECS) - ANS Purposeful (specific characteristics or purpose)
Convenience (easiest to reach)
Typical (ordinary cases)
Extreme/Deviant (extreme)
Criterion (certain principle or standard met by samples)
, Snowball (referral)
Sample size in Qual - ANS - No set formula or rigid number
- Selection of meaningful participants
- Looking for depth
Depth (QUAL) vs. Breadth (QUAN) - ANS Depth (QUAL) = more about less
> specific detail
Breadth (QUAN) = less about more
> generalize
Rigour (evaluate) - ANS - Quality of qualitative inquiry
- Tool to evaluate qualitative research
Ethics Defined
(principles-prevent-harm) - ANS - Principles that aim to prevent research participants from
being harmed
Quantitative (PIERO)
vs.
Qualitative (ICTDC) - ANS Quantitative
- Positivism: we are 'positive' about results
- Internal validity: was research done properly?
- External validity: can it be generalized to other settings?
- Reliability: stability of a finding
- Objectivity: without interpretation or opinion
Qualitative
- Interpretivism
- Credibility: scrutinizes fit btwn what participants say and researchers report
- Transferability: The degree to which findings can be generalized or applied to other groups.
- Dependability: The level of coherence and logic involved in the process of interpretation.
- Confirmability: Attempts to show that findings and interpretations of those findings are not
imaginative; they're clearly linked to the data.
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