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| a design that emerges as make ongoing decisions reflecting what has already been learned |
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| a qualitative researcher; a person who is adept at performing a large number of diverse tasks, ranging from interviewing to intensive reflection and introspection |
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| everything influences everything else, in the here and now |
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| a discipline of anthropology that is concerned with human cultures |
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| focuses on the cognitive world of a culture, with particular emphasis on the semantic rules and shared meanings that shape behavior |
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| focuses on the lived experiences of humans |
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| uses lived experiences as a tool for better understanding the social, cultural, political, or historical context in which human experiences occur |
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| the biology of human behavior; studies behavior as it evolves in its natural context |
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| tradition that seeks to describe and understand key social psychologic and structural processes in social settings |
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| seeks to discover how people make sense of their everyday activities and interpret their social worlds so as to behave in socially acceptable ways |
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| seeks to understand the rules, mechanisms, and structure of conversions |
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| the systematic collection and critical evaluation of data relating to past occurrences; a tradition that relies primarily on qualitative data |
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| refers to the way a group of people live--the patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance |
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| the process by which the ethnographer inevitably comes to understand a culture, and the ethnographic text is how that culture is communicated and portrayed |
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| ethnographic research that is concerned with broadly defined cultures |
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| ethnographic research that is focused on more narrowly defined cultures |
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| refers to the way the members of the culture regard their world |
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| the outsiders' interpretation of the experiences of that culture |
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| information about the culture that is so deeply embedded in cultural experiences that members do not talk about it or man not even be consciously aware of it |
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| observations that ethnographers make of the culture under study while participating in its activities |
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| individuals who help ethnographers understand and interpret the events and activities being observed |
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| the study and analysis of the local or indigenous people's viewpoints, beliefs, and practices about nursing care behavior and processes of designated cultures |
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| a type of ethnography that involves self-scrutiny |
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being-in-the-world
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| a concept that acknowledges people's physical ties to their world--they think, see, hear, feel, and are conscious through their bodies' interaction with the world |
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| Descriptive phenomenology |
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| carefully portrays the ordinary conscious experience of everyday life--a depiction of "things" as people experience them |
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| refers to the process of identifying and holding in abeyance preconceived beliefs and opinions about the phenomenon under study |
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| journaling that is often done by phenomenological researchers in their efforts to bracket |
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| occurs when researchers remain open to the meanings attributed to the phenomenon by those who have experienced it |
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| Interpretive phenomenology |
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| lived experience is inherently an interpretive process |
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| describing the interpretive process as a circular relationship where one understands the whole of a text in terms of its parts and the parts in terms of the whole |
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| focuses on the manner in which people make sense of social interactions and the interpretations they attach to social symbols |
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| the manner in which people resolve the main concern in grounded theory |
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| a procedure used to develop and refine theoretically relevant concepts and categories |
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| aims at describing the full range of behavior of what is occuring in teh sbstantive area, irrespective of relevance and accounting for variation in behavior |
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| in-depth investigations of a single entity or a small number of entities |
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| focuses on story as the object of inquiry, to determine how individuals make sense of events in their lives |
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| another approach for analysis of narratives; five key elements of a story: act, scene, agent, agency, and prupose |
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| an analysis of themes and patterns that emerge in the narrative content |
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| Descriptive qualitative studies |
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| qualitative studies that do not have a formal name or do not fit into normal typology |
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| originated with a group of Marxist-oriented German scholars in the 1920s; concerned with a critique of society and with envisioning new possibilites |
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| focuses on raising consciousness and aiding emancipatory goals in the hope of effecting social change |
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| similar to critical theory, but the focus is sharply on gender domination and descrimination within patriarchal societies |
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| several types of action research that originated in the 1940s; based on a recognition that the production of knowledge can be political and can be used to exert power |
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