Keywords in Qualitative Methods: A Vocabulary of Research Concepts

By M. Bloor, Fiona Wood. 2006

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Content analysis and thematic analysis: Implications for conducting a qualitative descriptive study. (2013, background): “The purpose of content analysis is to describe the characteristics of the document’s content by examining who says what, to whom, and with what effect (Bloor & Wood, 2006).”
Turning on the tap: the benefits of using ‘real-life’ vignettes in qualitative research interviews (2020, background): “We considered that vignettes had the potential to act as a ‘stimulus to extend the discussion’ (Bloor and Wood, 2006: 183) and as such could potentially perform better than time-limited semi structured interviews as a result of their capacity to act as both microcosms and provokers in the sense…”
The research design maze: understanding paradigms, cases, methods and methodologies (2012, background): “Here, a purposive sampling is exercised to specifically pick information-rich cases on the basis of their matched criteria to the ones required to answer the research questions being asked (Bloor and Wood 2006).”
Perceptions of senior-year ELT students for flipped classroom: a materials development course (2017, background): “According to Bloor and Wood (2006), focus groups are mostly characterised by several individuals discussing a subject instead of merely answering questions.”