Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Introduction To Qualitative Research: SCWK 240 - Week 9 Slides
Introduction To Qualitative Research: SCWK 240 - Week 9 Slides
Introduction To Qualitative Research: SCWK 240 - Week 9 Slides
Qualitative Research
QUANTITATIVE QUALITATIVE
§ Theory/hypothesis testing § Theory/hypotheses
generating
§ Explanation § Understanding
§ Quantification and § Description (in what
statistics (what/how much?) context?)
§ Deductive § Inductive
§ Focus on Objective Data § Focus on Observation
5
One way to think about the difference between Deductive
and Inductive methods is to think about Detectives.
§ Interview
Ø Individual
(1) informal
conversational
(2) interview guide
Ø Group: focus group
14
Strengths and Weaknesses
Strengths
§ Depth of understanding
§ Flexibility
Weaknesses
§ Subjectivity
§ Suggestive, not definitive
§ Limited generalizability
v Mixed methodology is possible
15
A View for Qualitative Analysis