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1 Foundations of qualitative research
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1.2.1 Ontology
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Ontology is about realism and idealism. What is realism?External reality does exist -> objectivism
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What are the three levels of realism?- empirical - senses
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1.2.2 Epistemology
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What is, according to blaikie (2007) the nature of knowledge or truth?- foundational
- fallibilistic - provisional (tijdelijk)
- value-mediated knowledge
- correspondence theory of truth - obserervation is equal with reality
- coherence theory of truth - multiuple researchers have same result
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1.3 Positivism and the scientific method
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What is post-positivism/post-empiricism/falsification? (Popper)Reality can be known approximately but not for sure. Hypothesis are made and compared with observation
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What is the reasoning of postivism/empiricism?Inductive reasoning - emprical facts
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What is the reasoning of post-positivism?Deductive, it is tested against observations
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1.4.1 interpretivism and the origins of qualitative research
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What is the reasoning of interpretivism?Inductive reasoning, but observations are mediated by ideas and assumptions
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1.4.2 advancement and diversification of qualitative research
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Discourse analysis - ethnographySociologie - how knowledge is produced at different levels
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Personal construct theoryPhycology - pshycologis construct people use to give meaning to their thought and behaviour
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Narrative/biographical methodsFocuses on individual stories to get breadth and depth (cross-disciplinairy)
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The following topics are covered in this summary
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qualitative, quantitative, research
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methods, research, difference
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ethical, utilitarian, principled
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participant, pressure, researcher
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purposive, participate, people
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layout, data, analyse
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interview, listening, probing
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groups, phase, participants
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research, setting, access
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analysis, data, analytic
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data, classification, content
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linkage, phenomenon, behave
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concept, explanations, different
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data, group, analysed
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generalisation, study, theoretical
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validity, triangulation, traingulation
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outputs, research, selective
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tales, presenting, reader
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different, explanations, evidence