SOCI 2150Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Science & Medicine, Food Bank, Grounded Theory
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Ways of knowing: qualitative interviewing (a grounded theory" methodology) What is qualitative research: qualitative research involves the study of things in their natural (social) settings*, attempting to make sense of or interpret phenomenon in terms of the meanings people bring to them. When are qualitative methods appropriate: qualitative methods are appropriate when the phenomenon of interest involves understanding experiences, meaning, emotions, motivations and other subjective aspects of the everyday lives of individuals and groups; When are qualitative methods appropriate: qualitative methods are used to enrich or expand what (we think) we know and (how) we understand it , eg. Hunger and environmental nutrition 12(1): 26-45. (qualitative interview study: garthwaite, k. a. , collins, p. j. and bambra, c. (2015). Food for thought: an ethnographic study of negotiating ill health and food insecurity in a uk foodbank. In the inductive method, research is conducted and data (observations) analyzed in order to produce/extract theory.
