HLTD04H3 Chapter 8: Ch. 8
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Hltb10 - chapter 8 (lecture #4): the nature of qualitative research. Inductive (starts with field research to arrive at theory: interpretivist/constructionist social life is not seen as fixed but outcome of interactions and negotiations, naturalist perspective leaving the natural world the way it is. Kinds of qualitative: ethnography/participant observation, qualitative interviews, focus groups, discourse and convo analysis, qualitative analysis of texts and documents. Involves grounded theory (use of data to develop theories); may involve iterative process (going back and forth with data) *reflexivity the ability to identify as well as make biases known*
