HSCI 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Conversation Analysis, Content Analysis, Social Change
26 Feb 2020
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Qualitative research: an inquiry process of understanding based on distinct methodological traditions of inquiry that explore a special or human problem. The researcher builds a complex, holistic picture, analyzes words, reports, detailed views of informants, and conducts the study in a natural setting. Concerned primarily with words and images rather than numbers. Content analysis: qualitative analysis of texts and documents. Participatory action research: engage participants to produce social change. Social justice: seeing through the eyes of the people being studied. Seeing through the eyes of the people studied. Showing how events and patterns unfold over time. Along time spent in the field allows the researcher to understand individual and social change and its context. This can be done with semi-structured interviewing, unstructured interviewing, and life history approach: flexibility and limited structure. There is usually little or no theory driving the research. The tops explored in the research may change as the study progresses.
