PR1 FINALS L1 Understanding Data and Ways To Systematically Collect Data
PR1 FINALS L1 Understanding Data and Ways To Systematically Collect Data
Method
• Identify culture, variables for study, and review literature
• Data collection-gain entrance to culture; immerse self in culture;
acquire
informants; gather data through direct observation and interaction
with subjects
Ethnographic approach
Outcome-description of culture
Phenomenology comes from academic disciplines of philosophy and
psychology, and it is based upon the work of the 20th-century
philosopher Edmund Husserl, which was then later developed by
Heidegger. (Van Manen, 1990)
Purpose:
• Theory development
• Used in discovering what problems exist in a
social science and how persons handle them
• Involves formulation, testing and
redevelopment of propositions until a theory is
developed
Stages of Grounded Theory:
• Data collection
• Note taking
• Coding (open, axial, selective) into categories and properties
• Memoing
• Sorting/Integration
• Writing (Glasser & Strauss, 1967)
Analysis:
• Concept formation
• Concept development-reduction; selective sampling
of literature; selective
sampling of subjects; emergence of core concepts
• Concept modification and integration
Outcome:
Purpose:
Method:
Directions: Read and analyze each question and identify what research design is
appropriate for each.