Political Science 3324F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Conversation Analysis, Internal Validity, Thick Description
14 Nov 2016
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Chapter 9 lecture 5 nature of qualitative research. Inductive view of relationship between theory and research. I(cid:374)terpreti(cid:448)ist, seeks to u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)d so(cid:272)ial (cid:449)orld through people"s i(cid:374)terpretatio(cid:374)s. Ethnography/ participant observation researcher immersed in a social setting, observing. Qualitative interviewing semi structured or unstructured interviews. Participatory action research professional researchers collaborate with others affected by a problem to understand issue and try to resolve it. Main steps in qualitative research: general research questions, selecting relevant sites and subjects, collection of data, conceptual and theoretical work. Interpretation of data: tighter specification of research questions, collection of further data for more specific/ refined research question, writing up findings / conclusions. Grounded theory a common approach to the analysis of qualitative data, stresses the importance of using data to develop theoretical ideas. External reliability degree to which a study can be replicated: difficult to meet in social research, impossible to freeze social setting.
