APA 2180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Discriminant, Grounded Theory, Autoethnography
4 Apr 2016
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Researcher usually shapes the data into a chronology. Context is important for telling the story as stories occur within speciic places or situaions. Researcher seeks in the end to develop a theory. Researcher focuses on a process or acion that has disinct steps or phases over ime. Best for capturing detailed stories from a single individual or a small group of individuals. Researchers spend considerable ime with their individuals and acively engage them. Interviews, observaions, documents (e. g. , personal journals: systemaically develop a theory that explains a process, acion or interacion. Construcivist: more emphasis on views, values and beliefs, assumpions of individuals than on the methods. Need to situate the paricipants within their. Procedures in grounded theory lives, their culture and historical context. Need to determine if research quesion is best examined by grounded theory. Recorded by the individuals who are the subjects.
