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Qualitative Data analysis : An Introduction

Qualitative Data analysis : An Introduction. Carol Grbich Chapter 1 : Introduction. Qualitative research. Characteristics: subjectivity has value (meaning the views of the participant and the researcher are to be respected and data and its interpretation will be constructed by both;

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Qualitative Data analysis : An Introduction

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  1. Qualitative Data analysis : An Introduction Carol Grbich Chapter 1 : Introduction

  2. Qualitative research Characteristics: • subjectivity has value (meaning the views of the participant and the researcher are to be respected and data and its interpretation will be constructed by both; • power lies predominantly with the researched (who are viewed as being the experts on the research topic); • an holistic view is essential (so the structures impacting on the setting such as policies, culture, situation and context need to be included); • every study is time and context bound (so that replication and direct generalisation are unlikely outcomes).

  3. Best research areas • Culture • Phenomena ( intense experiences) • Structural processes (organisation) • Historical changes (over time)

  4. Issues to consider prior to researching • Frames and framing • The position and power of the researcher • The position of the reader • Research paradigms • Design methodologies

  5. Frames and Framing • extra textual frames – your accumulated knowledge of the world; • intra textual frames – your internal framing devices of age, sex, socioeconomic class etc; • inter-textual frames the interpretive frames (models and theories and concepts) from your discipline/s; and • circum textual frames – involving contextual construction and your interpretation of the immediate situation or event.

  6. The position and power of the researcher Researcher position • Centred/decentred? • Objective/subjective? Position of the reader • Open or closed text?

  7. Research paradigms • Realism/post positivism (expert researcher) • Critical theory (class, power and the location and amelioration of oppression) • Interpretivism/Constructionism (symbols & signs in reality construction) • Postmodernismand post structuralism (the questioning of ‘truth’ and ‘reality’)

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