SCMA*2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hermeneutic Circle, Hermeneutics, Grou
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Content analysis what is within frame of text: frequencies of words. Implied meanings from varied use of word (phrase where word is use) Discourse analysis: study what is said and written fore regularities and make assertions about communication in a social grou, specific descriptions of interaction way they talk leads to. Includes others: general assertions patterns that emerge from data. Structural ethnography discover cultural themes as patterns (flow charts) Symbolic interaction study of human interaction as resource to understand further issues: hypothesis about phenomena are causes of proposition and findings cpared to hypothesis, findings are coded into categories. Ethnomethodology: study of interactions as a topic in of themselves. Hermeneutics (learning model: each part is analyzed in relation to whole and receives meaning from whole. Individual parts understood through association with whole (ex. chapter to book: whole comes transparent, parts-reinterpreted. Case studies: one piece of data, explained in terms of what makes sense, meaningful because case chosen is a typical case".
