HSS 3101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Semi-Structured Interview, Dementia, Autoethnography
2 Nov 2017
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Qualitative research is the empirical enquiry focused on naturally occurring phenomenon. It focuses on the context and meanings of health, illness, and disease. Naturalistic: many qualitative approaches take place in natural environment. Interpretive: constructing meaning (interpreting) data with aim to explain phenomenon of study: ethnography. Ethnography is one of the oldest approaches, and has its origins in anthropology. It focuses on exploration of culture, both the method and product. Provides detailed, in-depth description of everyday life and practice studied from the perspective of individuals belonging to that culture. Institutional ethnography: theorized way of seeing and knowing that orients the researcher. Enables the researcher to examine an organizational text as a form of power and address how it organizes social relations and people"s lives. Autoethnography: draws on ethnographic practices that link the personal to the cultural through a self-narrative. Researcher is participant and observer of their own story. Old age and vulnerability between rst, second, and third person perspectives.
