S W 313 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Qualitative Property, Data Analysis
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Quantitative methods emphasize: precision, generalizability, testing hypothesis. Qualitative methods emphasize: deeper understandings, describing context. What is going on around the topic: generating hypotheses, discovery. Quantitative data collection: office, agency, mail, or internet data collection setting. Qualitative data collection: data collected in natural environment of research participants. Quantitative emphasis: deductive, larger samples, objectivity, numbers/statistics, less contextual detail, close-ended questions, less time-consuming, easier to replicate. Qualitative emphasis: inductive, smaller samples, subjectivity, words/patterns, rich descriptions, open-ended questions, more time-consuming, harder to replicate. 2/7/17: 3 possible emphases, 3 possible sequences. Three advanced mixed method designs: intervention mixed methods design. Approaches are merged to get a better handle on the meaning of the results of an evaluation of an intervention: social justice mixed methods design. Methods based on social justice theory and aimed at yielding a call for action to improve the plight of vulnerable, marginalized or oppressed groups: multiphase mixed methods design.
