PHYSICS 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Grounded Theory, Qualitative Property, Conflict Resolution
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Most common method is semi-structured interview: semi-structured interviews. Interview schedule is created by researcher, this guides the interview but researcher can deviate from it, ask questions in different ways, ask questions not on schedule. Interview is more like a conversation but remains focused on topic and participants experience: major areas of interview remain the same but prompts are different, open and interested questions, prompts and probes. 13, emphasis in original: different types of analysis, discourse how speakers frame their arguments, every day politicians. We can"t know what is going on in people"s head potter & wetherell 1987: conversation what do all the word sounds in a conversation mean. Interpretative phenomenology how does a person think, feel and understand experience. Descriptions meaning and interpretations from philosophical tradition of meaning and experience. The researcher understands participants experience through own experience. Analytical flexibility not tied to a particular world view. Grov 2015: sameness (homophily) closeness, social meaning-making of self (winkler-reid 2016)
