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Qualitative Research Methods, Definition, Assumptions of qualitative…
Qualitative Research Methods
The researcher builds a complex, holistic picture, analyzes words, reports detaled views of informants, and conducts the study in a natural setting.
Qualitative research is an inquiry process of understanding based distinct methodological traditions of inquiry that explore a social or human problem.
Qualitative research
- involves fieldwork; is descriptive; is inductive
Qualitative researchers
- are primarily concerned with process rather than outcomes; are interested in meaning
To study individuals in their natural settings
Conceptualization of a phenomenon
To study the human experience
To develop theory
Particularly suitable for research questions of social scientist, behavioral scientists and nurse scientists
The topic needs to be explored; presented as a detailed view of the topic
The nature of the research question guides research design
Systematic compilation of data
; critical presentation, evaluationand interpretation of facts regarding people, eventsand other occurences of the past
Sources of data
include written or video documents, interviews of persons who witnessed phenomenon, photographs, other artifacts
Biography
includes interviews and facts found in records, documents and archival material
Ethnography
Grounded theory
Phenomenology
Historiography
A description and interpritation of a cultural or social group or system
Goal is to understand the "emic" view of the study participants world
Data gathering involves participant observation or immersion in the setting, interviews, photographs and interpritation by researcher of cultural patterns
Field work is major focus of method
Generated theory explained in text and schematic model
Theories grounded in data
Based on symbolic interaction; meanings individualsgive to interaction with others in a social setting in respons to life cicumstances
Study that generates or discovers a theory that relates to a particular situation
Measurement is primarily the interview; observational notes, documents are less often used
Qualitative researcher is the primary instrument for data collection and analysis
Qualitative analysis is based on data reduction and interpretation
Technique for making inferences by systematically and objectively identifying special characteristics of messages
Any item that can be made into text are amenable to content analysis
Criteria of selection for material included from analysis set up prior to analysis
Manifest and latent
content analysis
Used in qualitative and quantitative analysis
Definition
Assumptions of qualitative designs
Why conduct qualitative research?
Qualitative research methods
Historical or biographical research
Ethnography
Grounded theory
Measurement
Content analysis