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Ch. 3 Qualitative Research Design & Data Collection (General…
Ch. 3
Qualitative Research Design
& Data Collection
General Principles
of
Qual. Research Design
Data Collected
need be
Naturalistic
Ideally
:
Not
coded/summarized/
Reduced
Qual. Res. Methods:
Flexible
Open-Ended
Problems of:
Validity
how well do Data Collection/Analysis
Answer what we Meant to Ask?
partial Solutions:
Participant Validation
bt' Researchers'
Assumptions & attributed Meanings
Real-Life Settings
good World validity
Reflexivity
hinders Imposition of Meaning
by the Researcher
(-> improves Validity)
Reliability
Less Important
investigate often
Particular/Unique issues
Representativeness
Smaller Number
of Participants
a
Problem
only if we
Want to Generalize
if relevant 4 more ppl than
the Participants involved
Reflexivity
Ethics
ethical issues all along,
from start to after the end
Processual Consent
fit to the Flexibility of
the Research Process
basic Ethical Considerations:
Informed Consent
No Deception
Right to Withdraw
Debriefing
Confidentiality
Triangulation
not necessarily
try to Corroborate findings
Diff. Perspectives
Not diff. Measures of Same
thing, but
understanding Above and Beyond
that that Methods achieve in isolation
Research Question
diff. from Hypothesis:
claim from a Theory
can be Tested vs Empirical evidence
Research Q.:
Cannot be answered by Yes/No
Provides
Detailed Descriptions
or
Explanations
of a phenomenon
No Prediction
(Open-Ended?)
points
toward a Direction
w/out
making
Predictions
Process
oriented
aks
How smth happens
Flexible
,
Provisional
,
Open-Ended
open to
Change
During
the
Reesarch Process
Street Lamp Metaphor
the
Res.Q.
need
Always Precede
choice
of
Methodology
Interview
Some q. before:
Who to interview and Why?
how to Recruit Participants?
how to Record and Transcribe?
what interviewing Style?
what to Ask?
Types
of q.:
Descriptive
what Happened?, what is the Case?
Biographical
information
Structural
how they
Make Sense
how they Organize their knowl.
what Categories/Frameworks they use
to make sense of the world
Evaluative
their
Feelings
bt' smth/smn
Constrast
Comparison
btw events and experiences
Role
of the
Participant
Relation
btw:
Researcher & Participant
range:
blurred - separate
Blurred
ex. feminist approaches,
participatory action research
the
Researcher becomes a Patricipant
,
the
Participant contributes to
the
Analysis
Separate
ex. conversation analysis,
discursive psychology
Participant Not Involved nor Aware
of the
data
they produce