LS 322- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 31 pages long!)
1 Dec 2017
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Observation -> pattern -> tentative hypothesis -> theory. Data are more efficient, but may miss contextual detail. What qualitative researchers do: capture context and meaning of individual and group life, understanding how people make sense of the world around them. Tools: interviews, field observations, and physical and social traces. Health care experiences: understand their experience of illness or disability, their experience of using a health service. Max weber wrote the classical sociological statement on this issue. Value free sociology, an ideal whereby researchers identify facts without allowing their own personal beliefs or biases to interfere. Purpose of qualitative methods: goals, understand what qualitative methods are about, how to execute a high quality qualitative research project. Provide enough methodological detail useful for future research. Strategies for designing, collecting and analyzing qualitative data. Challenges researchers face in the field and practical strategies for overcoming them. Develop a research design and complementary research tools.
