FSN 707 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Grounded Theory, Semiotics, Roland Barthes
19 Sep 2018
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Curiosity, passion, personal interest, a design brief . All valid means to narrow down a topic. Based on something you are curious about. Gathering insights as to what is going on and why it is so. A memo is any writing a researcher does in reference to their research. Not in relation to field notes, transcription or coding. Memos allow you to get your ideas on paper - your thoughts on anything connected to your research. Write memos after you do interviews, observations, etc. Helps you uncover your beliefs, values, unconscious biases. A strongly help position on some issue may seriously impair and. A strongly help position on some issue may seriously impair and interview with someone who hold an opposing view or distort your analysis of such an interview, if you haven"t explicitly identified you position. What you see is different in different perspectives. Friedman (2003) suggest that "in its most basic form, a theory is a mode.
