HTHSCI 4NR3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Grounded Theory, Sociolinguistics, Ethology

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HTHSCI 4NR3
• Professor: Pat Stratchan

Document Summary

Case study: in-depth analysis of an individual group, institution, or other social unit. Constant comparison: newly collected data are compared in an ongoing fashion with data obtained earlier, to refine theoretically relevant categories- used in grounded theory. Confirmability: a criteria for evaluations the quality of a qualitative research, referring to the objectivity or neutrality of the data or the analysis and interpretation. Transferability: the extent to which findings can be transferred to other settings or groups- often used in qualitative research and analogous to generalizability in quantitative research. Trustworthiness: the degree of confidence researchers have in their data, assed using the criteria of credibility, transferability, dependability, and confirmability. Credibility: a criteria for evaluating data quality in qualitative studies, referring to the confidence in the truth of the data. Dependability: criteria for evaluating data in qualitative data, referring to the stability of data over time and over conditions.