SOCI 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Qualitative Research, Regression Analysis, Contingency Table
Week 12/13- qualitative data analysis
Exam format
• Multiple choice
• True/false
• Definitions
• Short answer
o Contingency table, regression analysis, question from an excerpt
Differences from survey interviews
• Smaller number of cases
• Non-representative, purposive/theoretical
• In-depth interviews = conversations with a purpose – to gather information
• Can pursue issues that may have not been anticipated
o The same, standardized questions may not be asked to every respondent
o Enables us to pursue issues in greater depth
• Saturation
• Why would we used in-depth interviewing?
o Topics may be personal
o Detailed answers
o Multiple perspectives
o Pick out variables
Approaches to interviewing
• Miner (from Kvale)
o Subject possess info that interviewer needs to dig out
• Traveller (from Kvale)
o Wondering around and having conversations
o Getting their lived experiences
• 3 ways of interviewing
o structured
▪ standardized questions
o semi-structured
▪ standardized questions suggested but may be altered
o unstructured
▪ completely unstandardized
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