CYC 601 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Thick Description, Participant Observation, External Validity

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Child and Youth Care
• Course: CYC 601
• Professor: Kiaras Gharabaghi

Document Summary

Involves (inductive) view of the relationship between theory and research (start with research then develop theories) Interpretivists seek to understand social world through subject"s interpretation. The main steps in qualitative research: general research questions, selecting relevant site(s) and subjects, collection of data, interpretation of data, conceptual and theoretical work, tighter specification of the research question(s, collection of further data. *above implies that a theoretical position may emerge in the course of research that spurs the collection of further data to test it: writing up findings/conclusions. One approach is to adopt most of the core ideas used in quantitative research without making and special adjustments (i. e. validity, reliability, generalizability. External reliability researchers replicating ethnographic researchers should adopt a social role similar to the original researcher to increase chances of seeing and hearing same things. Internal reliability member of research team agree about what they see and hear.