QUALITATIVE RESEARCH DESIGNS

• PHENOMENOLOGY

  • examines human experiences thru the descriptions provided by the people involved
  • GOAL: to describe the meaning that experiences hold for each subject (mas deep compare to narrative)
• ETHNOGRAPHY

  • involve the collections and analysis of data about cultural groups
  • Agar(1986) - describe ethno. as "encountering alien worlds and making sense of them"
  • Cameron(1990) - wrote ethno. as "learning from people"
  • Leininger(1985) - ethno. can be defined as "systematic process of observing, detailing, describing, documenting, and analyzing the lifeways or particular patterns of a culture"
• GROUNDED THEORY

  • developed by 2 sociologists, GLASER & STRAUSS(1985)
  • data are collected and analyzed and then a THEORY IS DEVELOPED
  • uses both an inductive and deductive approach
  • Field & Morse(1985) "constructs and concepts are grounded in the data and hypothesis are tested as they arise from the research"
• NARRATIVE RESEARCH

  • to understand how research participants construct stories and narrative from their own personal experiences
  • dual layer
  • participants interpret their own lives
  • researcher interpret the CONSTRUCTION OF THAT NARRATIVE
• CASE STUDY

  • in-depth examinations of people or groups of people
  • could also examine an institutions, such us hospice care for the dying