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  2. Qualitative research - Wikipedia

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    Qualitative research is a type of research that aims to gather and analyse non-numerical (descriptive) data in order to gain an understanding of individuals' social reality, including understanding their attitudes, beliefs, and motivation.

  3. Thematic analysis - Wikipedia

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    Coding reliability [4] [2] approaches have the longest history and are often little different from qualitative content analysis. As the name suggests they prioritise the measurement of coding reliability through the use of structured and fixed code books, the use of multiple coders who work independently to apply the code book to the data, the measurement of inter-rater reliability or inter ...

  4. Lived experience - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] It is a category of qualitative research together with those that focus on society and culture and those that focus on language and communication. [ 3 ] In the philosophy of Wilhelm Dilthey , the human sciences are based on lived experience, which makes them fundamentally different from the natural sciences , which are considered to be ...

  5. Grounded theory - Wikipedia

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    Grounded theory combines traditions in positivist philosophy, general sociology, and, particularly, the symbolic interactionist branch of sociology.According to Ralph, Birks and Chapman, [9] grounded theory is "methodologically dynamic" [7] in the sense that, rather than being a complete methodology, grounded theory provides a means of constructing methods to better understand situations ...

  6. Research - Wikipedia

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    In addition, PMP researcher Mandy Sha argued that a project management approach is necessary to control the scope, schedule, and cost related to qualitative research design, participant recruitment, data collection, reporting, as well as stakeholder engagement. [39] [40] Quantitative research

  7. Open coding - Wikipedia

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    Based in grounded theory, open coding is the analytic process through which concepts (codes) are attached to observed data and phenomena during qualitative data analysis.It is one of the techniques described by Strauss (1987) and Strauss and Corbin (1990) for working with text.

  8. Social research - Wikipedia

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    Social research involves creating a theory, operationalization (measurement of variables) and observation (actual collection of data to test hypothesized relationship). Social theories are written in the language of variables, in other words, theories describe logical relationships between variables.

  9. Conversation analysis - Wikipedia

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    A lot of CA research has been done by researchers analyzing encounters in their own native tongue rather than in other languages. Unlike discourse analysis , Conversation Analysts focus on interaction at a micro level, and usually do not look at written texts nor overarching sociocultural concepts (for example, 'discourses' in the Foucauldian ...