SA 255 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Semi-Structured Interview, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, Eye Movement Desensitization And Reprocessing
26 Oct 2016
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Shows persecution that buddhists were facing: no, because he was taking this picture in the first place. Turning point in the conflict: western mobility. Political power: goes beyond the photo itself, can provoke social change. Primary objective: walk in the shoes of the participants, provide rich, idiographic description of phenomena, show the impact of context, generate new theory as an outcome of research. Important that it is based from the outcome and not your original hypothesis. Key qualitative methods: semi structured interviews, unstructured interviews, ethnography. Empathy is a huge part of qualitative research! Asking same questions to different groups: quantitative aspect, still helpful to have structure like this in qualitative research too. Unstructured interviews are very casual and conversational. Induction gathering and examining data and deriving an explanation from that data. Interpretivist epistemology actions should be viewed from the point of view of social actors (epistemology = how do we know what we know.
