QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

1. A WAY TO COLLECT AND ANALYZE DATA TO CLARIFY CONCEPTS, OPINIONS EXPERIENCES ON SOCIAL AND CULTURAL PHENOMENON.

   • PHENOMENOLOGY RESEARCH
     • Increases knwoledge about a phenomena like experiences, concepts, events and situations. Provides explanations, but not definitively.
       • Uses interviews, discussions and participant observation.
       • Emphasize the importance of personal perspective and interpretation.
   • ETHNOGRAPHY RESEARCH
     • Describes individual human societies, studies of cultures and people. People under investigation have something in common. Demands a lot of involvement of the researcher, interacting with human targets and needs to be familiarized with the culture and the use of local language of the subjects.
       • Cultural Parameters: geographical, religious, tribal, shared experiences and lifestyle.
       • Data collection techniques: formal-informal interviewing, maybe more than one, it is time cnsuming.
   • GROUNDED THEORY
     • Developes new theory, new knowledge through the collection and analysis of data about a phenomenon.
       • Techniques used: interviews, onservation, literature review, documentary analysis.
       • Usually used in health care and holistic care fields.
   • CASE STUDY
     • Analyses people, decisions, periods, projects, policies, institutions through holistic studies by one or more methods.
       • Done in social sciences and life sciences. Can be descriptive or explanatory. May used prospective criteria or retrospective criteria.
       • Types of cases (subjects of inquiry): Key cases, outlier cases, Local knowledge cases.
       • Highly multipurpose research method, recommend depth information, can employ any and all methods of data collection from testing to interviewing.

2. LAURA V. ALARCÓN PERÉZ.

   • Resources: Kumar, P.(2013). Qualitative research designs: a conceptual framework. International Journal of Social Science and Interdisciplinary Research, 2(1), pp. 118-124.

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