Summary: Qualitative Research Methods

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• 1 Lecture 1

• 1.1 quantitative vs. qualitative research

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• Nomothetic knowledgereductionist researchstandardised methods replicablenon-normative 

  Empirical-analytical approach

• Idiographic knowledge holistic research unstandardized methodsmore difficult to replicate non-normative 

  Empirical-interpretive approach

• 1.2 characteristics of qualitative research

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• Systematically collecting and analysing data step-by-step in order to develop theory

  Grounded-theory approach

• Types of data sources:

  • People
    
  • physical reality

• 1.5 Sampling in qualitative research

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• The group from which you select/sample research units and to which you would like to generalize your findings

  Research population

• General characteristics of samples in qualitative research:

  • Relatively small sample size 
    
  • research units are studied intensively 
  • sequential selection of research units 
  • looking for a wide range of different perspectives 

• Selecting research units intentionally according to the needs of the study

  Purposive sampling

• Sampling is driven by a theoretical framework

  Deductive

• 2 Lecture 2

• 2.1 qualitative interview

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• Use of open endedperspective of the intervieweeinfluence of the interviewer

  Unstructured interview

• A series of cycles in which the researcher moves back and forth among the data collection and the analysis

  Grounded theory approach