SWP 638 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Semi-Structured Interview, Chat Room, Nonprobability Sampling
20 Mar 2017
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Qualitative design: qualitative design is flexible, recursive, more going back and forth, keep refining the design as you proceed with it, key terms to understand qualitative design: rigorous, flexible, recursive. Longitudinal study: more than one attempt of data collection, (cid:862)multiple (cid:449)a(cid:448)es of data (cid:272)olle(cid:272)tio(cid:374)(cid:863) padgett. Qual r approaches and methods of data collection. Types of qualitative interviews: the informal field interview: A conversation with a purpose, to gather data. There are no predetermined questions but the researcher tries to guide the conversation to elicit the information. Conversation will remain very short, but have a definite purpose. Eg: interview with the district collector in the study on empowerment of dalits . Information obtained - concentration of landholdings in the village confirmed the economic power of caste hindus. Critiques of interviewing realism vs authenticity belief in getting true information versus believing that there is nothing like truth. Positivists and post-positivists look to seeking the truth.
