SOCECOL 10 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Participant Observation, Cyber-Ethnography, Inductive Reasoning
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10/05/2015: qualitative methods methods, such as participant observation, intensive interviewing, and focus groups, that are designed to capture social life as participants experience it rather than in categories the researcher predetermines. Theoretical sampling a sampling method recommended for field researchers by glaser and strauss (1967). A theoretical sampling is drawn in a sequential fashion, with settings or individuals selected for study as earlier observations or interviews indicate that these settings or individuals are influential. Field notes notes that describe what has been observed, heard, or otherwise experienced in a participant observation study. These notes usually are written after the observational session. Jottings brief notes written in the field about highlights of an observation period. Focus group a qualitative method that involves unstructured group interviews in which the focus group leader actively encourages discussion among participants on the topics of interest (cid:1)