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Qualitative Approaches
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Phenomenology is a
school of thought that emphasizes a focus on people's subjective experiences and
interpretations of the world. That is, the phenomenologist wants to understand how
the world appears to others. -
Instead the theory needs to be grounded or
rooted in observation -- hence the term. - 1 more annotations...
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Phenomenology (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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Phenomenology is the study of structures of consciousness as
experienced from the first-person point of view. -
The discipline of phenomenology may be defined initially as the
study of structures of experience, or consciousness. Literally,
phenomenology is the study of "phenomena": appearances of things, or
things as they appear in our experience, or the ways we experience
things, thus the meanings things have in our experience. Phenomenology
studies conscious experience as experienced from the subjective or
first person point of view. This field of philosophy is then to be
distinguished from, and related to, the other main fields of
philosophy: ontology (the study of being or what is), epistemology (the
study of knowledge), logic (the study of valid reasoning), ethics (the
study of right and wrong action), etc. - 4 more annotations...
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ArtandCulture Movement: Hermeneutics
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According to this Heidegger-Gadamer composite, interpretation is essentially circular, since we always approach the world or a text -- or the world as text -- with a particular disposition that colors our perceptions. However, we do not merely impose our own perspective, nor is interpretation merely subjective. Circularity comes as the world resists us, confronting us with elements that refuse to conform to our disposition and subsequently forcing us to reconfigure ourselves. Thus altered, we set ourselves upon the world once again, this time with transformed eyes. The process is incessant.
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Introduction to Grounded Theory
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The phrase "grounded theory" refers to theory that is developed inductively
from a corpus of data. -
The basic idea of the grounded theory approach is to read (and re-read) a textual
database (such as a corpus of field notes) and "discover" or label variables
(called categories, concepts and properties) and their interrelationships.
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Grounded theory: a thumbnail sketch
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What most differentiates grounded
theory from much other research is that it is explicitly emergent.
It does not test a hypothesis. It sets out to find what theory accounts
for the research situation as it is. In this respect it is like action
research: the aim is to understand the research situation. The aim,
as Glaser in particular states it, is to discover the theory implicit in
the data. -
Doing grounded theory well is partly a
matter of unlearning some of what you have been taught or have acquired
through your reading. - 3 more annotations...
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