SWP 638 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Postpositivism, Ethnography, Relate

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SWP 638
• Professor: Purnima George

Document Summary

Evb research: discourages any variations based on cultural context, community, etc, eliminate worst practices and enhance best practices, purpose is to standardize and maximize good practice, reduce cost and improve quality, neoliberal agenda. The purpose is to illuminate (central image of a crystal example) Decolonization: the critical foundation of indigenous paradigm: using paradigms of indigenous communities, then coming to know and understand theory from the people as they experience. Areas for discussion: five approaches to qualitative inquiry, narrative inquiry, phenomenological research, grounded theory, ethnographic research, case study, mixing and matching qualitative approaches. These ideas are important because they may case doubt on official accounts and established theories. Beverley, 2000 in denzin & y. lincoln, 2005, p. 668) Types of narratives: biography (cid:396)esea(cid:396)(cid:272)he(cid:396) (cid:396)e(cid:272)o(cid:396)ds a(cid:374)othe(cid:396) pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)(cid:859)s life e(cid:454)pe(cid:396)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)es, conduct interviews, refer to letters, photographs, etc. that the person connected with, e. g.