POL 3370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Unearth, Grounded Theory, Internal Consistency

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 3370
• Professor: Miriam Levitt

Document Summary

Pay attention to tentative phrases as opportunity to unearth meaning beneath dominant discourse. Interactive process requiring deep listening and active engagement with material (process may seem straightforward but about listening during the interview what ideas emerge from listening consider memoing along the way to capture ideas) African american student who grew up in white communities in contrast to those students who grew up in predominately mixed race african american communities. These two phases go hand in hand. in the exploration phase you read your textual and or visual or audio data and think about it. Memos are the beginning of analysis and interpretation start uncovering meaning by creating metahpors. The writing of memos to one self-regarding insights from data coding and reflecting on the data. The researcher creates, defines, and refines conceptual categories, makes tentative notes about links between concepts and draws a sketch of features important for understanding the setting.