CRIM 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Qualitative Inquiry, Content Analysis, Virtual Reality
19 Nov 2016
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Holistic approach starts with a research topic. Research involves series of interrelated choices that influence one another. Assumptions about what can be known and who can be a knower. Kinds of research questions we want to ask and to whom. Aid in answering research questions that traditional methods cannot address. Useful at unpacking issues of power and authority. Can cross disciplinary boundaries to create new concepts. Time, money, career, physical safety, emotional well-being. Standard methods can be bent/combined to serve as a function for newly emerging issues. Eg. the method of ethnographies adapted to create feminist ethnography. Draws on postmodern/feminist approaches to anthropology/cultural studies. 3 categories: new variations on traditional qualitative methods, new/underused qualitative methods, arts-based research practice. Includes range of artistic research methods that seek to blur boundaries between arts and sci. Seeks to capture the creativity of the artistic process. Allows for understanding the social world beyond standard research processes.
