Becoming Familiar With Qualitative Research

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Sheema Tarab
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Extensive Growth ◽  
Occupational Settings

Qualitative research is a field of study that deals with exploring, describing, and interpreting the innate quality of entities and the social processes. In the recent past, an extensive growth in qualitative field of research has been witnessed, particularly in the occupational settings. It is a dynamic and exhilarating area that seeks to explain the research observations by means of insights which are hard to produce with quantitative methods. Most of the work is concerned with developing a theory (i.e., an inductive way to find out new solutions or identify new questions related to social being). In this chapter, the author has targeted the segment which is mostly the students pursuing research courses or conducting empirical work; the faculties and the mangers who are handling the diversity of the social beings at their workplaces, whose varied needs are persistently evolving, would be able to understand the notion of technique which is qualitative in nature. Certain studies conducted in past and present have also been illustrated to maintain the reader's interest.

The Social Consequences of Phubbing

2020 ◽  
pp. 157-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariek Vanden Abeele
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Expectancy Violations ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Comprehensive Literature Review ◽  
The Social

Recent empirical work suggests that phubbing, a term used to describe the practice of snubbing someone with a phone during a face-to-face social interaction, harms the quality of social relationships. Based on a comprehensive literature review, this chapter presents a framework that integrates three concurrent mechanisms that explain the relational impact of phubbing: expectancy violations, ostracism, and attentional conflict. Based on this framework, theoretically grounded propositions are formulated that may serve as guidelines for future research on these mechanisms, the conditions under which they operate, and a number of potential issues that need to be considered to further validate and extend the framework.

What's the problem with disaster? Anthropology, social work, and the qualitative slot

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 1496-1516
Author(s):  
Tisha Joseph Holmes ◽  
John Mathias ◽  
Tyler McCreary ◽  
James Brian Elsner
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Housing Stock ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Problem Definition ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
The Social ◽  
Disaster Anthropology ◽  
Political Economic

On March 3, 2019, an EF4 tornado devastated the rural Alabama communities of Beauregard and Smith Station, killing 23 people and causing direct injuries to another 97. This storm was unusually devastating, with twice the predicted casualty rate based on the tornado’s power, the impacted population, and impacted housing stock. In this paper, we apply qualitative methods from anthropology, geography, and planning to better understand the social context of this unusually devastating tornado. Recognizing that there are multiple formulations of the problem of disasters, we aim to highlight how interdisciplinary qualitative research can deepen our understanding of tornado disasters. Combining policy analysis, political economic critique, and ethnographic description, we seek to showcase how qualitative research enables us to interrogate and reimagine the problem of disasters. Rather than simply juxtaposing qualitative and quantitative methods, we emphasize how the heterogeneity of qualitative research methods can strengthen interdisciplinary research projects by generating dialogue about the multiple contexts relevant to understanding a social problem. While problem definition remains a central challenge to establishing a dialogue between anthropology and social work, here, we intend to extend this discussion to larger interdisciplinary collaborations. Situating the issue of problem formation within a broader ecology of qualitative inquiry, we highlight how dialogue about problem definition can, itself, produce meaningful insights into how we understand disasters.

Uncertainties Revisited

2019 ◽  
pp. 216-237
Author(s):  
Liesbeth Huybrechts ◽  
Katrien Dreessen ◽  
Selina Schepers
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Uncertainty Model ◽  
The Social ◽  
Matters Of Concern ◽  
Uncertainty Models ◽  
Do So

In this chapter, the authors use actor-network theory (ANT) to explore the relations between uncertainties in co-design processes and the quality of participation. To do so, the authors investigate Latour's discussion uncertainties in relation to social processes: the nature of actors, actions, objects, facts/matters of concern, and the study of the social. To engage with the discussion on uncertainties in co-design and, more specific in infrastructuring, this chapter clusters the diversity of articulations of the role and place of uncertainty in co-design into four uncertainty models: (1) the neoliberal, (2) the management, (3) the disruptive, and (4) the open uncertainty model. To deepen the reflections on the latter, the authors evaluate the relations between the role and place of uncertainty in two infrastructuring processes in the domain of healthcare and the quality of these processes. In the final reflections, the authors elaborate on how ANT supported in developing a “lens” to assess how uncertainties hinder or contribute to the quality of participation.

scholarly journals Playing with Ideas and Games in Early Mathematics

2002 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola J. Yelland
Keyword(s):  
Computer Games ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Design Element ◽  
Early Mathematics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Computer Club ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Structure And Design

This article investigates learning in an out-of-school informal computer club. Particularly, it sought to elucidate information about mathematical learning and understandings that were displayed when children played and interacted in computer-based contexts. It was also concerned with the social processes inherent to game playing and the design features of computer games which appealed to children. The data revealed that mathematical understandings can be promoted and practised in computer games and that the structure and design of the game determined the amount and quality of the interactions that children engage in. Children of all ages preferred games that had a design element and catered for different levels of participation. Additionally, they liked games that had a narrative and adventure context in which activities were situated with some purpose.

scholarly journals Social Doctrine of Tourism: Cultural and Educational Aspects

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4S) ◽  
pp. 157-159
Keyword(s):  
Social Stratification ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Social Doctrine ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Social Features ◽  
Basic Approaches ◽  
Tourist Service

The theoretical approaches to the study of social doctrine, in particular the social doctrine of tourism is considered in the article. The social features of tourism development in modern conditions are reviewed. The basic approaches to understanding of social tourism as a separate type of tourism and its influence on social development are analyzed. The social content of the tourist service is considered as signs of social stratification. The content of the concept of social doctrine of tourism is defined. The necessity of development and realization of effective social doctrine of tourism with the consideration of regional social specifics is substantiated. The scheme of the functional structure of the social doctrine of tourism is developed. The features of culture and education as the key components of the social doctrine of tourism are determined. The expediency of improving the quality of vocational education in tourism has been substantiated in connection with the intensification of social processes and raising the level of social and economic development.

Ethnography

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Kwame Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Distinct Features ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

Ethnography (Understanding Qualitative Research) provides a comprehensive guide to understanding, conceptualizing, and critically assessing ethnographic research and its resultant texts. Through a series of discussions and illustrations, utilizing both classic and contemporary examples, the book highlights distinct features of ethnography as both a research methodology and a writing tradition. It emphasizes the importance of training—including familiarity with culture as an anthropologically derived concept and critical awareness of the history of ethnography. To this end, it introduces the notion of ethnographic comportment, which serves as a standard for engaging and gauging ethnography. Indeed, ethnographic comportment issues from a familiarity with ethnography’s problematic past and inspires a disposition of accountability for one’s role in advancing ethnographic practices. Following an introductory chapter outlining the emergence and character of ethnography as a professionalized field, subsequent chapters conceptualize ethnographic research design, consider the practices of representing research methodologies, discuss the crafting of accurate and evocative ethnographic texts, and explain the different ways in which research and writing gets evaluated. While foregrounding interpretive and literary qualities that have gained prominence since the late twentieth century, the book properly situates ethnography at the nexus of the social sciences and the humanities. Ethnography (Understanding Qualitative Research) presents novice ethnographers with clear examples and illustrations of how to go about conducting, analyzing, and representing their research; its primary purpose, however, is to introduce readers to effective practices for understanding and evaluating the quality of ethnography.

scholarly journals El capital social de los hijos de inmigrantes procedentes de Rumanía, Ecuador y Marruecos en España

2018 ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Francisco Javier De Lorenzo Gilsanz
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Young People ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
Family Migration ◽  
Capital Social ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Relational Goods ◽  
Synthetic Index ◽  
The Social

El término capital social es uno de los más utilizados en la literatura especializada de las últimas décadas. De hecho, resulta un concepto claramente evocador de diferentes contenidos pero difícilmente medible, en función de la definición que se haga de él. A partir de un trabajo de desagregación en componentes y de una propuesta metodológica concreta, hemos tratado de elaborar un índice sintético para medir el capital social y otro para los bienes relacionales. El contenido fundamental de este artículo recoge dicha propuesta y su aplicación sobre jóvenes (entre 18 y 29 años) que, teniendo o no la nacionalidad española, cuenten con un pasado migratorio familiar reciente (es decir, hijos de inmigrantes) y que residan desde hace un mínimo de 15 años en nuestro país. Además, se ha establecido una comparativa entre quienes constituyen nuestro campo de estudio y otros dos grupos distintos con los que comparten características importantes pero se diferencian en aspectos significativos: adultos inmigrantes residentes en España con los que comparten procedencia cultural y jóvenes españoles de entre 18 y 29 años sin pasado migratorio familiar reciente con los que comparten edad y, en muchos casos, nacionalidad.The term social capital is one of the most used in the specialized literature of recent decades. In fact, it is a concept clearly reminiscent of different contents, but difficult to measure, depending on the definition used. From a work of disaggregation into components and a concrete methodological proposal, we have tried to elaborate a synthetic index to measure the social capital and another one for the relational goods. The fundamental content of this article includes this proposal and its application to young people (between 18 and 29 years old) who, with or without Spanish nationality, have a recent past of family migration and a minimum of 15 years in our country. In addition, a comparison has been established between those who make up our field of study and two other groups with whom they share important characteristics but differ in significant aspects: immigrant adults living in Spain with whom they share cultural background and young Spaniards between 18 and 29 years old without recent family migration past with whom they share age and, in many cases, nationality.

Enlivening the Concept of Democratization: The Biological Metaphor

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Analogical Reasoning ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Modern Biology ◽  
Alternative Source ◽  
Quality Of Democracy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relative Quality

Mechanical metaphors have colonized the social sciences, including the study of democratization processes. But they may provide a misleading framework for monitoring ongoing “self-equilibrating” social processes with no natural “end state” such as democratization. I propose that modern biology can be consulted as an alternative source of analogical reasoning, offering a more flexible and appropriate stock of metaphors that can enliven analogical accounts of processes of democratization. The shift towards modeling democracy as a living practice permanently directed towards self-preservation and propagation provides a clearer rationale for comparative studies, focussing on the relative “quality” of democracy in different contexts. I begin with a brief sketch of the historical instability and current contestability of most democratization processes; I then examine the morphology of complex political concepts and propose alternative biological analogies to replace the currently prevalent physicalist imagery.

scholarly journals Social Discourse In Malaysia’s Indie Masterpieces / Wacana Kemasyarakatan Dalam Karya-Karya Indie Di Malaysia

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Asyraff Jamin ◽  
Mary Fatimah Subet
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Social Discourse ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Fair Valuation ◽  
Religious Aspect

This research aimed to identify the social discourse presented in five Malaysia’s Indie novels entitled Aku Rindu 90’s (2012), Surat-Surat Untuk Kaherah (2013), Kunang Pesisir Morten (2013), Tuhan Jaga Dia Untukku (2017) and Budak Kelas Belakang (2018). This is a qualitative research using Georg Lukacs’ theory of realism (1963). Structural analysis is used to identify the views, visions, hopes and significant values for efforts to develop and improve the life quality of society. The objectives of this research were to identify Indie writer’s thoughts towards developing and improving the life quality of community, to analyse Indie novels which are equivalent to other serious mainstream media and to determine a new definiton for Indie masterpieces which evolving as a new literary stream in Malaysia. Research findings indicate that in the society there was a complete social discourse covering social, educational, economic, political and religious aspect. The findings also showed that Indie masterpieces conveyed serious thinking that particularly impact society on socials, educational, economic, political and religious developmet in a society. Indie masterpieces were also found to be on par with other serious mainstream media. The findings also showed that positive and fair valuation should be given towards these masterpieces. All findings have shown that Indie masterpieces are equivalent to other literary genres in Malaysia.

scholarly journals AYAT-AYAT TENTANG RELASI LAKI-LAKI DAN PEREMPUAN DALAM AL-QUR’AN: Analisis Struktural Levi-Strauss

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Nur Faizah
Keyword(s):  
Social Institution ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Salvation History ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

Religion is a social institution, especially for the Muslim community in general, determine the dynamics of the entire development community. In many cases the social processes that marginalizing women, intentionally or not, often involving religion as elements forming knowledge about relationships between men and women are unequal, and often used as a source of theological legitimacy of the above indisputable fact that marginalize women. During this time, the field of study of the Qur’an many scholars dominated philology and history. This led to a prolonged confusion between the text and the history of salvation history, which is implicit in it. This needs to be solved, with the view that the text of the Qur'an and his commentary as an expression of the views of Islam. This is where the importance of the legacy of structuralism in a given interpretation. By using Levi-Strauss' structuralism, an attempt to determine the relationship webs in the narrative, the relationship is either syntagmatic or paradigmatic, to find hidden messages or messages that are deepest in the verses of the Qur’an.  [Agama merupakan institusi sosial, terutama untuk masyarakat muslim pada umumnya, sangat menentukan seluruh perkembangan dinamika masyarakat. Dalam banyak kasus proses sosial yang memarginalisasikan perempuan, sengaja atau tidak, sering melibatkan agama sebagai unsur pembentuk pengetahuan tentang relasi laki-laki-perempuan yang timpang dan seringkali dijadikan sumber legitimasi teologis yang tidak terbantahkan atas kenyataan yang menyudutkan perempuan. Selama ini, bidang kajian al-Qur’an banyak didominasi sarjana filologi dan sejarah. Ini memunculkan kerancuan berkepanjangan antara sejarah teks tersebut dan sejarah penyelamatan, yang secara implisit terkandung di dalamnya. Hal ini perlu dipecahkan, dengan memandang bahwa teks al-Qur’an dan tafsirnya sebagai ungkapan pandangan-pandangan Islam. Di sinilah pentingnya strukturalisme dalam memberi kekayaan khazanah penafsiran. Dengan menggunakan strukturalisme Levi-Strauss, sebuah upaya untuk mengetahui jaring-jaring relasi dalam narasi, baik relasi tersebut bersifat sintagmatik maupun paradigmatik, untuk mengetahui hidden message atau pesan terdalam yang terdapat dalam ayat-ayat al-Qur’an.]

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