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Qualitative Data Analysis : An Introduction

Qualitative Data Analysis : An Introduction. Carol Grbich Chapter. 7 Phenomenology. Phenomenology. Phenomenology involves exploring, in depth, experiences or texts to clarify their essences There are several different forms of Phenomenology: Classical/realistic/transcendental;

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Qualitative Data Analysis : An Introduction

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  1. Qualitative Data Analysis : An Introduction Carol Grbich Chapter. 7 Phenomenology

  2. Phenomenology Phenomenology involves exploring, in depth, experiences or texts to clarify their essences There are several different forms of Phenomenology: • Classical/realistic/transcendental; • Existential • Hermeneutic • Heuristic

  3. Classical Phenomenology – Edmund Husserl • Seeks the structures of the world and how people act and react to them, eg. the structure of consciousness, intentionality and essences in an external world • how objects are constituted in pure consciousness and how these constitutions can be identified through processes of phenomenological reduction.

  4. Phenomenological reduction (bracketing) • identify the phenomena or object • identify a recent experience of your own of this phenomena in terms of how it appeared to you • take certain features of this experience and develop variations on aspects of this bracketed experience and then delete these from the object • continue this process until you arrive at the essence or essential features of the object

  5. Bracketing detail (1) • Ask more specific questions about your knowledge of and attitudes (What do I think of this? What do I think this experience would be like?) • Move back, remove all theoretical perspectives, symbols and constructs and your preconceived ideas, experiences and feelings re the topic under research • Prepare to confront the phenomenon with a blank sheet, rather like taking the position of an alien from a distant planet • Focus on the phenomenon and become open and passive • Set reasoning aside • Listen carefully and allow yourself to be drawn in, in a sustained and receptive manner

  6. Bracketing detail (2) • Document answers to the question: what does the experience appear to be now? • Examine this description, : Does it arise from my own experiences or from past knowledge or my reading? All aspects which can be seen to have come from other sources must be abandoned. • Locate the experiences’ essence and identify and critique the essences’ elements. Ask yourself the question: Would the phenomenon still stand without any of these? • Negotiate the essences’ elements with those observed/interviewed. (Adapted from Crotty, 1996:158-159

  7. Data collection • Interview with open ended questions seeking experiences. Return several times to seek clarification of issues or to explore potential aspects which are becoming illuminated • Observe (bathe in the experience as it occurs – observing the human experiences both of yourself and of others) • Include documentation e.g. literature, poetry, biography, material culture etc. (seek perspectives of others regarding these texts, meanwhile recording your own understandings and experiences) • Identify and deconstruct discourses

  8. Data analysis • Bracket out your own experiences • Enter a dialogue with individual participants (or engage with an existing text) • Reflect on what you have gained through reading and journaling your thoughts • Identify the major themes from the narratives/texts using processes of preliminary data analysis and/or thematic analysis

  9. Data analysis detail (1) • Stage 1: ideographic mode (the gathering of closely connected ideas, words or concepts) • construct a ‘research key’ of categories from each transcript and subcategories related to the research question. This key will be expanded as more transcripts are perused. • isolate ‘natural meaning units’ – phrases with a single meaning and number these according to categories in the research key • select themes which are central to the experiences of participants - write a phenomenological comment on each central theme • write a succinct sub narrative of the individual’s experience of the phenomenon and relate it to the interpretive themes selected.

  10. Data analysis detail (2) Stage 2; nomothetic mode (the search for abstract principles) • collate sub -narratives and interpretive themes and use concept maps to to indicate interconnections around the phenomenon being researched • rank interpretive themes in order of importance (frequency x intensity) and group meta themes and subthemes • identify explicative themes (those which appear to have a primary referential character) using bracketing of your own thoughts and biases followed by creative writing through ‘free variation’ to multiply possibilities • creatively write using your own embodied experience of the phenomena together with information from the literature to enhance phenomenological description of interpretive themes key to the phenomena. • (adapted from Devinish, 2002: 5-6)

  11. Existential Phenomenology; Sartre, Heidegger, Merleau Ponty. • Consciousness is a separate entity • People are immersed in their life worlds • Phenomenological reduction is not desired • Movement from abstract to the real – the meanings for being must be uncovered first • Husserl’s movement in classical phenomenology is from the real to the abstract.

  12. Hermeneutic Phenomenology : Heidegger, Gadamer, Ricoeur & Van Manen Investigates the interpretive structures of experiences of individuals or texts • The interpretive focus is from the outside - from the perspective of the ‘objective’ researcher, or from the inside - with a focus on interaction between the interpreter and text • The integration of part and whole in terms of overall interpretation is essential. ‘being’ (existence) is the overarching hidden aspect which becomes evident via the activities of ‘beings’ (individuals). • Bracketing does not occur but a reflective journal is kept • Co-construction of the data between researcher and respondent occurs and that the outcome involves a continuous conversation.

  13. Heuristic Phenomenology : Moutsakas 1. 1. Become one with the research question through self awareness and self knowledge involving; self dialogue( ones own experiences), tacit knowing(that which lies beneath intuition), intuition(that which is between explicit and tacit knowledge), indwelling (going inwards for a deeper understanding), focusing(on the central meaning of the experience ) and examination of the internal reference frames (created from knowledge and experience).

  14. Heuristic Phenomenology : Moutsakas 2. 2. Immersion:the researcher becomes totally involved in the world of data 3. Incubation: intense concentration on knowledge expansion through increased awareness, intuitive or tacit insights and understanding 4. Illumination: active knowing to expand understanding of the experience through a breakthrough 5. Explication: reflective actions and comprehensive depiction of core themes 6. Creative synthesis: bring together and display data creatively to show patterns and relationships

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