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Qualitative research - Coggle Diagram

- - - - It is a way of facing the empirical world:
      - • Qualitative research is inductive
      - • In qualitative methodology, the researcher sees the scene and the people in a logistical perspective; people, settings or groups are not reduced to variables, but considered as a whole.
      - • Qualitative researchers try to understand people within their own frame of reference.
      - • The qualitative researcher suspends or sets aside his own beliefs, perspective, and biases.
- - - - Rapport is not a concept that can be easily defined, it means many things:
      - • Communicate your sympathy for informants and get them to accept it as sincere.
      - • Penetrate behind people's “stranger defenses”.
      - • Get people to "open up" and express their feelings about the stage and about other people.
      - • Be seen as an unobjectionable person.
      - • Share the symbolic world of the informants, their language and their perspectives.
- - - - Three types of in-depth interviews can be distinguished, closely related to each other:
      - • Life history or sociological autobiography. In life history, the researcher tries to apprehend the salient experiences of a person's life and the definitions that person applies to those experiences. What differentiates the life story from the popular autobiographies is the fact that the researcher actively requests the account of the experiences and the way of seeing the person, and constructs the life story as a final product.
      - • Learning about events and activities that cannot be observed directly. In this type of interview, our interlocutors are informants in the truest sense of the word. They act as observers of the researcher, they are his eyes and ears in the field. For so many informants their role is not simply to reveal their own ways of seeing, but rather they must describe what is happening and how other people perceive it.
      - • Provide a broad picture of a range of scenario situations or people. Interviews are used to study a relatively large number of people in a relatively short time compared to the time required for participant observation research