“Are You Retarded?” “No, I'm Catholic”: Qualitative Methods in the Study of People with Severe Handicaps

1988 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sari Knopp Biklen ◽  
Charles R. Moseley
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods ◽  
Good Communication ◽  
The World ◽  
Severe Handicaps ◽  
Severe Retardation

Qualitative research methods generally depend heavily on good communication between researcher and informant. When qualitative methodologists study informants with severe retardation whose use of language may be limited, what do they do? If the researchers plan to study the world of the informant, then traditional participant observation guidelines are useful. But when the researcher wants to interview the informant, some modifications need to be made. The authors suggest several guidelines to follow.

scholarly journals Ethical reflexivity in qualitative research: the use of cinematographic movies as an instrument for continuous training

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Doris Gomes ◽  
Juliara Bellina Hoffmann ◽  
Mirelle Finkler
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods ◽  
Continuous Training ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Narrative Bioethics

ABSTRACT Objectives: to analyze ethically, aesthetically and politically the cine-debate of the movie “Human”, reflecting on training of researchers in qualitative research. Methods: the debate about moral questions as the essence of humanity was based on Narrative Bioethics; the comprehensive, relational and reflective character of qualitative methods; and the ethical and social sense of qualitative researches. Results: the narratives of the experiences of morality, loaded with facts and valuations, highlighting the importance of reflexivity in all phases of the qualitative research process, from thinking about themes and research questions to fieldwork, from data analysis to the production of reports, fostering the researcher’s responsibility both in the intervention for understanding and narrating the world, and in its possible transformation. Final Considerations: cinematographic art becomes an instrument of reflexivity capable of affecting and mobilizing students, in a fusion of horizons of understanding of different universes that dialogue.

scholarly journals The Popularity of Faerlina US - World of Warcraft Classic Server: Game Study Using Qualitative Research Methods on the World of Warcraft Classic Game Server

MEDIASI ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-27
Author(s):  
Deddy Stevano H. Tobing
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods ◽  
World Of Warcraft ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Virtual Currency ◽  
The World ◽  
Role Playing Game ◽  
Depth Interviews

This research discusses the popularity of Faerlina US which is one of the game server of the game World of Warcraft Classic (WoW Classic), a MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) game version which is one of the World of Warcraft game version released on 26 August 2019. This study uses several qualitative research methods, namely participatory observation, in-depth interviews, and studies of previous studies. The results of this study indicate that the popularity of Faerlina US tends to be driven by the popularity of twitch.tv streamers who play on these servers. This research also shows that Faerlina has also become popular because it is interesting to be a place to conduct economic activities such as selling virtual items and conducting gold-virtual currency transactions into real money.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods in Education

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Student Needs ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Domains ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Experienced Researcher

99 entries The Oxford Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods in Education has brought together scholars from across the globe who use qualitative methods in their research to address the history, current uses, adaptations for specific knowledge domains and situations, and problematics that drive the methodology. This is the most comprehensive resource available on qualitative methods in education. For novice researchers, the Encyclopedia enables a broad view of the methods and how to enact them in the studies that early-career researchers may wish to conduct. For the experienced researcher, the range of approaches and adaptations covered enables the development of sophisticated methodological designs. For those who are qualitative research methodologists, this book reveals where the methodology has come from and where it is going. Methodologists can use these volumes to discern where new ideas and practices are needed, and provide the bases for new methodological works. For those who teach these methods, the Encyclopedia is an invaluable compendium that can be tapped for inclusion in courses and to enable the instructor to be able to quickly respond to specific student needs with high-quality methodological resources.

From Fire Escapes to Qualitative Data: Pedagogical Urging, Embodied Research, and Narrative Medicine’s Ear of the Heart

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edgar Rivera Colón
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Narrative Medicine ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Observation ◽  
Embodied Research

The author begins with a lyrical and evocative description of a cilantro-green fire escape from which he observed the neighborhood of his childhood, explaining that the work of the ethnographer is rooted in experiences of observation and experience. Drawing upon these tools of social interaction, training in qualitative research methods can help students to discover and reframe their already practiced skills in the social observation and interpretation with which they, and all of us, traverse the world. The embodied and reflexive nature of this practice is emphasized, with attention to the observer’s own social positionality and identity. Citing William Stringfellow’s proposal that “listening…is a primitive act of love,” the author proposes that qualitative research and narrative medicine both offer frameworks for such listening, with implications of political and social liberation.

Qualitative methods III

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 779-788 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn Dowling ◽  
Kate Lloyd ◽  
Sandie Suchet-Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Human Geography ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods ◽  
Health Geography ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

In this, our third and final snapshot of contemporary qualitative research methods, we pick up on the proliferation of non-representational theory across human geography and focus on research methods concerned with practices that exceed (more than) representation or are non-representational. We chart work that pays attention to the non-visible, the non-verbal and the non-obvious, as well as methods and methodologies that enable researchers to grasp and grapple with assemblages, relationalities, and life as it unfolds. We characterize these ‘more-than representational’ methodologies as: experimenting with approaches to research, using picturing as an embedded research methodology, and highlighting research as sensing. We conclude that these have opened new forms of knowledge, including into subdisciplines like health geography. Nonetheless, a privileging of written and visual modes of thinking and representing remain, and the discipline must be vigilant to nurture and value the emerging work on neural diversity and non-Western modes of thinking.

scholarly journals Yours, Mine and Ours: Theorizing the Global Articulation of Qualitative Research Methods and Academic Disciplines

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan C. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Valuable Resource ◽  
Professional Discipline ◽  
Academic Communities ◽  
Research Questions

<p>Two current forms of globalization are inherently interesting to academic qualitative researchers. The first is <em>the globalization of qualitative research methods </em>themselves. The second is <em>the globalization of academic disciplines </em>in which those methods are institutionalized as a valuable resource for professional practices of teaching and scholarly research. This essay argues that patterns in existing discussion of these two trends create an opportunity for innovative scholarship. That opportunity involves reflexively leveraging qualitative research methods to study the simultaneous negotiation by academic communities of <em>both </em>qualitative methods <em>and </em>their professional discipline. Five theories that serve to develop this opportunity are reviewed, focusing on their related benefits and limitations, and the specific research questions they yield. The essay concludes by synthesizing distinctive commitments of this proposed research program.</p>

scholarly journals Polemik Pengesahan Omnibus Law: UU Cipta Kerja Dalam Perspektif Sosiologi Hukum

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Karinina Anggita Farrisqi ◽  
Agus Machfud Fauzi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Formation Process ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government ◽  
New Perspective

A law with a concept on the omnibus law in the world of law in the State of Indonesia is a new perspective in the field of law. The point in omnibus law is different from the meaning, nature, and concept of legal norms in existing laws. We can also interpret this concept as a way of settling the forms of regulation in legislation into law and which in the end have consequences for revoking some invalid regulations. With the use of a new perspective like this, of course, people's thinking is also increasingly modern, including following the flow of globalization. In this era of globalization, there are certainly many incidents in the spread of hoax news. This problem is carried out by qualitative research methods and using several theories. The subject matter to be discussed can also be found in the conclusion that the perspective used by the drafters of the law is increasingly modern which will also provide the potential for the spread of hoaxes from people who follow the flow of globalization. Therefore, if the government and the DPR enforce themselves in making laws with the concept of the omnibus law, then the formation process needs to follow the method of prolegnas, has a good academic script, and is not in a hurry by involving stakeholders and the community.

scholarly journals Augmenting Students’ Speaking Skill Through Vlog as an Innovation in Learning

Syntax Idea ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 1782
Author(s):  
Ainan Salsabila
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods ◽  
Creative Potential ◽  
Research Article ◽  
The World ◽  
Speaking Skill

In this era of globalization, technology media has become an important role that can be used in the world of education. Especially vlog can be used as content to explore creative potential for everyone to augment speaking skills. Vlog defines as the documentation using video component as a medium media to record that they want to talk about it. The purpose of this research article of the innovation in learning through vlog is to augment students’ confidence speaking skill in their classroom. The data of this research used case study in the form of descriptive analysis using qualitative research methods. Data collection techniques were collected by observation of eight grader graduate in SMP Darul Ulum Depok. The results of this research revealed that after the students conducted the vlog, the students successfully in the criteria points for improving speaking skill and they more enjoy in speaking performance. Besides, the use innovation through vlog can enhanced students’ fluency, pronunciation, vocabulary, and good performance.

scholarly journals Values and Behaviour: The Literary Concept of “Bosom” in the Akan Culture

2021 ◽  
pp. 143-152
Author(s):  
Peter Arthur
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods ◽  
Oral Literature ◽  
Akan Culture ◽  
Gathering Data

This paper sees the Akan concept of “bosom”, translated into English as “lesser god”, as a very powerful socializing instrument used in constructing social order in the community. The aim of this paper is not to discount or dismiss the spiritual powers of the “bosom” but to use oral literature as a platform to investigate the role of the Akan people in the construction of what is known as “bosom”. This study has recourse to qualitative research methods in gathering data, the researcher immersing in the culture through formal and informal interviews and participant observation. The study also goes further to use the literary stylistics approach in analyzing the data. The findings are that man makes the taboos and the lesser gods execute the punishment. Again, taboos are values which constitute the tracks on which the society moves. These values “disguised” as “bosom” work, thanks to the fear factor in the Akan concept of “bosom”, making Akans literally worship these values in the form of “bosom”. Keywords: Cultural values, taboos, punishment, Akan lesser gods, stylistics

Found Theologies versus Imposed Theologies: Remarks on Theology and Ethnography from a Sociological Perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-172
Author(s):  
Gerardo Marti
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
Ethnographic Methods ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
New Challenges

Some theologians have adopted ethnographic methods in their theological work. This innovation brings exciting possibilities to theological work for grasping local social situations and structures, although it also brings significant new challenges. As a sociologist who uses ethnographic methods and pays attention to theological orientations and their effects, I view the work of ethnography as a powerful methodology filled with both possibilities and perils. The newfound enthusiasm for ethnography among theologians may not yet adequately recognize the hazards involved in the use of qualitative research methods for generating valid empirical observations. Insights generated by participant observation are constantly at risk of imposition of personal presumptions and asserted “truths,” especially when researchers enter the field with strongly held convictions and compelling worldviews. In this paper, a distinction between “found theologies” and “imposed theologies” is offered as a heuristic for conversation in the hope of further substantiating a sound basis for future scholarship.

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