SAR HP 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Traumatic Brain Injury, Autism Spectrum, Snowball Sampling
5 Mar 2019
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There are multiple realities: several versions of reality; someone"s interpretation of an event is inseparable from the event itself. The investigator and the participant are interdependent; the investigator is not an objective collector of data. Knowledge is time and context dependent: qualitative data is idiographic (you need the context, time and place). This is going to be unique to the person, to time and to the event. It is impossible to distinguish causes from effects; it is better to describe and interpret events than attempt to try to control them (you are not manipulating anything, you are just trying to understand). Inquiry is value-bound: re ected in what they ask about; de nition of constructs, and interpretation of outcomes is open ended. For example, in the study in which employment was being evaluated, the implication is that employment is good and unemployment is not. They want to help people with autism to be employed.
