HST250H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Grounded Theory, Symbolic Interactionism, Ethnography
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Qualitative research: emphasize seeing world from eyes of participants. Bracketing: cognitive process to set aside biases and personal perspective. Purposive selection: selecting individuals who have experience in the relevant area. Saturation (situation in data analysis where participants descriptions become repetitive: ethnography: larger aggregations of people (culture/cultural groups) Goal: discover insider"s views: grounded theory: small aggregations of people (cultural groups) Goal: development of a theory that explains social processes. Seeks to find the meaning from lived experiences. Believe people have multiple realities constructed by themselves. Covert participants: they did not disclose they were studying the group. Gatekeeper: individual with special groups who can lead to key informants. Theoretical memos: tentative interpretations that emerge during observational period. Analytic files: files relating to a specific topic explored. Two qualitative approach to data collection: ethnographic. Domain analysis: researcher moves from observing to social situation. Componential analysis: looks for all contrasts among cultural categories.
