An introduction to qualitative research

By Ian Alexander. European Journal of Information Systems, 2000

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Youth perceptions of suicide and help-seeking: ‘They'd think I was weak or “mental”’ (2010, methodology): “These discussions echoed Gilchrist and Sullivan’s (2006) findings in their research with young Australians help-seeking was perceived as being ‘weak’ or ‘uncool’ and against the preferred identity as a tough and independent person and also are found in the work of Barker and Adelman (1994) and Kuhl ”
Enacting entrepreneurship as social value creation (2011, background): “The interviews commenced with an initial generative question (Flick, 2006) and were developed with elaborative questions whenever there were events, descriptions or interpretations in the narrative that the researcher felt required further examination.”
Perspectives of LGBTQ emerging adults on the depiction and impact of LGBTQ media representation (2017, background): “…consumption by LGBTQ young people remains under-researched, the reciprocal process of collecting and analyzing data facilitates ongoing conceptualization, categorization, comparison, questioning, theorizing, and evaluation (Bringer, Johnston, and Brackenridge 2006; Charmaz 2006, 2011; Flick 2006).”
Autoethnography as a research method: Advantages, limitations and criticisms La autoetnografía como un método de investigación: ventajas, limitaciones y críticas (2013, background): “Although presenting the ‘real’ truth is something that I consider we cannot fully accomplish, because we are all actors in the society in which we live and interact, I do believe that qualitative methods can help us to better understand a phenomenon in a given community or setting, since research fi”
Everyday Expertise: Cognitive Demands in Diabetes Self-Management (2008, methodology): “Based on initial coding of six pilot interviews and input from expert researchers, a code list was iteratively refined to produce 78 nonredundant codes capturing maximal content (Bohm, 2004; Flick,1998).”
Writing a Literature Review (2000, background): “(Flick 2014 p. 67) Theoretical review may consist of a whole theory or a concept from the whole theory.”
‘Can I do it in my pyjamas?’ Negotiating a physical education curriculum with teenage girls (2010, methodology): “ATLAS.ti, a computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS) package, is both a conceptual network builder and a code-based theory builder (Flick, 2005).”
Categorising risky play—how can we identify risk‐taking in children's play? (2007, background): “Gradually the observations became more concrete and concentrated on the essential aspect of interest (Flick, 2006).”
Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior (2023, methodology): “We employed qualitative open coding [33] in two phases.”
How Motivation Influences Student Engagement: A Qualitative Case Study. (2012, methodology): “Drawing on the qualitative research approach, a case study approach (Merriam, 2002) was used.”
Human-Machine Collaboration for Content Regulation: The Case of Reddit Automoderator (2019, methodology): “To that end, we used a purposive sampling approach to select participants for our study [79].”
Moving Beyond Reflection: Reflexivity and Epistemic Cognition in Teaching and Teacher Education (2017, methodology): “Hence, this methodology demands not only reflective thinking to identify and frame a problem and to develop an action plan to solve it but also the study of the self within its own context (Flick, 2009; McNiff, 2013).”
Developing qualitative research questions: a reflective process (2009, background): “More recent qualitative inquiry has moved toward involving the researcher and participants in the process of inquiry (e.g., Flick 2006; Lassiter 2005; Maxwell 2005).”
Girls' experiences of menarche and menstruation (2005, background): “Dalton (1978) asserts that, during what she calls the ‘bogey of once a month’ (p. 121), a woman will become ‘an argumentative, shouting, abusive bitch’ (p. 94) and even potentially a ‘child-batterer’ (p. 110).”