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| Describe qualitative data |
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- hermeneutic- methodologies for understanding the meaning behind social processes
- social construction- how we see the world and categories we use to describe our experiences are the result of processes that differ in context
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and experience (particularly through
sensory perception)
within the experimental tradition
Positivist:
Advocates scientific method of hypothesis testing as a
general procedure for generating and validating
scientific knowledge
Empiricist:
scientific fact through evidence
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| What determines whether or not a criteria should be used? |
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Definition
- type of research question posed
- extent of control over the field
- degree of focus on past or current events
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| When are case studies useful |
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- how or why question being asked
- interested in contemporary (current or recent past) events
- do not have control over the events of interest
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| case study definition and requirements to be efffective |
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- empirical inquiry that
- investigates a contemporary phenomenon in depth and within its real life context, esp. when the boundaries between phenomenon and context arre not clear
- must
- cope with technically distinctive situation when there are many more variables than data points, so must rely on mulitple sources of evidence
- need evidence to converge and triangulate
- must be benefit from a priori development of theoretical propositions to guide data collection and analysis
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| Protests against case studies |
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- lack of rigor
- no generalizability
- causality
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| components of case study research |
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- study questions
- theoretical propositions
- units of analysis
- logic linking data to propositions
- criteria for interpretation of findings
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| Criteria for judging quality of research design |
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- construct validity (correct operational constructs for study)
- this is why pilot studies are very important
- internal validity
- external validity (where can the study be generalized to)
- reliability (we can repeat the study with the same results)
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