scholarly journals Qualitative Research in COVID 19 Pandemic

Author(s):  
Abdolghani Abdollahi Mohammad ◽  
Mohammad Reza Firouzkouhi

Introduction: Quantitative research is not suitable for COVID pandemic research because it does not cover the social consequences of qualitative research. COVID 19 is a social event that is important because of the disruption of the natural order of society. To defeat the disease, social interaction is needed, so qualitative research is appropriate to find the challenges and experiences of society. Therefore, due to the inconsistency of people's health behaviors with epidemiological models, people's vulnerability in epidemics, unexpected consequences or surprising results, extracting participants' experiences from medical procedures and revealing flexibility in the face of social problems, the use of qualitative research in this pandemic that will be important.

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Harlon França de Menezes ◽  
Ann Mary Machado Tinoco Feitosa Rosas ◽  
Alessandra Conceição Leite Funchal Camacho ◽  
Flávia Silva de Souza ◽  
Benedita Maria Rêgo Deusdará Rodrigues ◽  
...  

Aim: Understanding the repercussions of the educational actions of the nursing consultation on the life of chronic kidney patients and their caregivers. Methods: Qualitative research, using the Social Phenomenology reference. Open-ended interviews with 12 patients and their 12 caregivers were conducted in a public hospital outpatient clinic in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2016. Results: The analysis of the participants' testimonies allowed the elaboration of two concrete categories of the experience lived concerning the reasons "why": Sum of learning lived by the sick and those who care also learn. Conclusion: The importance of the perspectives of chronic kidney patients and their caregivers for the design of educational actions stands out in the face-to-face interaction, in the shared approach and the approximation of the nurse


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 332
Author(s):  
Muthiah Rahmi ◽  
Heri Tahir ◽  
Abdul Rahman A. Sakka

The study aims to discover: (i) the causes of community stigma on former convicts in Ganra subdistrict in Soppeng district, (ii) the social interaction of the community with former convicts in Ganra subdistrict in Soppeng district, and (ii) public acceptance of former convicts in Ganra subdistrict in Soppeng district. This research is a type of qualitative research by using purposive sampling technique as to obtain the informants. Ten informants were used in this study according to the needs of the researcher by determining the criteria of the informants. Data collection techniques employed observation, interview, and documentation to obtain concrete data relating to the problems of the research. The data validity technique in this study employed source triangulation technique. Based on the results of the study, it shows that there are three findings: (i) the occurrence of stigma by the community on former convicts there are two, namely the attitude of former convicts who tend to be closed and the existence of social stigma in society "that a person has committed a crime once, he will do it again”, (ii) the social interactions built between the community and former convicts are still well established, but a sense of vigilance remains because they have committed criminal acts, and (iii) the former convicts who leave the detention are not easy to return to and mingle in the community even though they are free. They are still considered as socially disabled persons. However, with the acceptance from the family and society, the former convicts can be embraced to become better persons.


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 411-422
Author(s):  
Eva Farhah

Infectious plague has seized the attention of a number of experts in various scientific fields and squeezed a number of dimensions of human life. This is also inseparable from the attention of Arabic writers, Egypt, namely Thaha Husain in undergoing an infectious plague era. Through his work entitled Al-Mu'tazilah (1971), Thaha Husain highlights the individual and social conditions of the community at the time when an outbreak of an infectious virus struck and after it passed. This situation is the problem in this study. Thus, the purpose of this study is to describe, describe and critique the attitudes of individuals and social communities in the face of infectious plague. The various attitudes and behaviors presented in this literary text serve as primary research data and are analyzed by descriptive methods. That is an analytical method that emphasizes the description of a qualitative critical analysis data, and not produce numbers as quantitative research. Furthermore, literary reception theory is used to express research analysis by its work, namely the method of textual criticism in order to obtain an objective and scientific analysis, then reinforced by secondary sources related to research. Thus, the results of this study are exemplary individual and social attitudes that can be implemented in contemporary life in the context of prevention, treatment and mutual assistance in dealing with infectious virus outbreaks. In addition, people can refrain from doing things that can harm the social environment.


2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 258-275
Author(s):  
Florentina Scârneci

Abstract: The present article presents the personal experience of the author with research methodologies.Some limits of the social scientific research are being analyzed, regarding two of the stages of research:theoretical framework and operationalization; this is the way in which the validity of the criteria and theconstruct validity came into discussion. At the same time, the character of sociological theories and theirutility in scientific research are under discussion. Reasons for which qualitative is chosen are listed despitethe constant disapproval of this method in Romanian sociology (and it’s marginalization in Central – EastEurope). The advantages of qualitative research in socio-human sciences are presented (what is being researched,through what methods, with what results). The special case of using the focus-group at a large scaleis being analyzed (its use without following two of the major qualitative principals: theoretical samplingand theoretical saturation). The article advocates for the usage of qualitative and it is written in a personaland provocative style.Key words: sociological research methodology, qualitative research, quantitative research, validity. SANTRAUKAKODĖL AŠ PASIRINKAU KOKYBINIO TYRIMO BŪDĄ?Straipsnis parengtas remiantis asmenišku autorės, dirbančios tyrimo metodologijų srityje, patyrimu.Analizuojami sociologinio mokslinio tyrimo trūkumai, susiję su dviem tyrimo pakopomis: teorine struktūrair operacionalizacija. Viena vertus, svarbu kriterijų ir konstrukcijų pagrįstumas, kita vertus, sociologiniųteorijų taikymo moksliniams tyrimams patikimumas. Aptariamos kokybinio metodo pasirinkimo priežastysir aplinkybės, rodančios, kad šis metodas Rumunijoje ir Centrinėje Rytų Europoje yra marginalizuojamas.Svarstomi įvairūs kokybinio metodo privalumai, įskaitant plačios apimties focus-grupių pavyzdžius. Straipsnioautorė nevengia kokybinio tyrimo būdo apologijos provokacinio stiliaus.


Author(s):  
Edgar Rivera Colón

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.


2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 80-92
Author(s):  
Chinwe Edith ◽  
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Emeka M. Onwuama

Domestic violence is gaining increasing notoriety in Nigeria, yet, it is treated with little importance. This could be attributed to a number of reasons; one of which is underreporting. This article examines the social consequences of wife-battering in Ogbaru and Onitsha North LGAs of Anambra State, Nigeria. Using qualitative and quantitative research approaches, a sample of 364 respondents comprising of 196 males and 168 females was drawn from Anambra State. The study adopted multi-stage and purposive sampling techniques in reaching the respondents. The quantitative data were analyzed using percentages, while thematic method of analysis was employed in the qualitative data. We found out and argue in this paper that wife-battering causes divorce, miscarriage, and children growing up to be aggressive. This paper proposes the need for emotionally incompatible couples to be allowed to get divorce. Also, the study calls for the government to encourage battered wives and children to get emotionally stabilized by establishing marriage counseling units in the communities that make up the Local Government Areas. And the units should make use of the services of personality psychologists and social workers.


Author(s):  
Gary Goertz ◽  
James Mahoney

This chapter considers some key ideas from logic and set theory as they relate to qualitative research in the social sciences, including ideas concerning necessary and sufficient conditions. It also highlights a major contrast between qualitative and quantitative research: whereas quantitative research draws on mathematical tools associated with statistics and probability theory, qualitative research is often based on set theory and logic. The chapter first compares the natural language of logic in the qualitative culture with the language of probability and statistics in the quantitative culture. It then considers the necessary conditions and sufficient conditions as basis for qualitative methods, focusing on set theory and Venn diagrams, two-by-two tables, and truth tables. It also discusses the use of qualitative and quantitative aggregation techniques and concludes by explaining the criteria for assessing the “fit” of the model or the “importance” of a given causal factor.


2020 ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
Robert I. Rotberg

Africa is becoming the second most populous continent and several of Africa’s countries the most populous on the planet, after India and China. This surge of people will explode Africa’s cities, cause a massive youth bulge, and demand that African countries attract investors, create jobs, and cope with the social consequences of a median age under thirty. Meanwhile, Islam will spread and so will Pentecostal Christian sects. Inter-religious, inter-ethnic, and anomic conflicts will arise amid the spread of climate change effects such as drought, floods, and rising coastal waters. Africans will need to be resilient in the face of natural as well as demographic challenges.


2020 ◽  
pp. 144-184
Author(s):  
Matt Jackson-Mccabe

This concluding chapter demonstrates how one can get around the problems created by Jewish Christianity by approaching the question of the origins of Christianity and the Christianity–Judaism division as a study in the production and dissemination of ancient social taxonomies. The central question from this perspective is neither the similarities and differences in culture nor even the social interaction among ancient Christians and Jews, but how early Jesus groups imagined themselves and their characteristic cultures in relation to Judeans and theirs. At what point did some Jesus groups begin to assert that Judeans and their distinguishing culture were, per se, “other” and to reify that difference by postulating a distinction between Christianism and Judaism? Whatever its various social consequences, how widespread was this taxonomy before its imperial adoption in the centuries after Constantine? Through an examination of a few exemplary cases, a significant distinction can be observed well into late antiquity between Jesus groups who made sense of their social experience with reference to such a notion of Christianism and those who did not; between those who came to differentiate a new “us” from the Judeans and the Nations alike, and those for whom Judeans and the Nations remained the primary division.


2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-70
Author(s):  
L.A. Kalinichenko ◽  

the article analyzes the main actors in the development and implementation of the strategy on the world stage in the face of globalization and global threats and risks. The methodological basis of the study is the paradigm of sociosynergetic approach to the essence of the modern nation state and transnational actors, world organizations. The author builds a set of consistent theoretical provisions of the main national schools in the sphere of public administration and embeds in the methodological foundation the author’s theory of social organization of public service. The author’s methodology is presented, allowing to investigate the social consequences of making national state decisions on the way out of global crises and countering global threats. The results of studies of strategies of national states to overcome crisis situations have been disclosed. It is concluded that the key condition of success in the fight against global threats – the social nature of the modern nation-state.


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