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Thanks to my one of best friends for giving me two hours on Qualitative data analysis with Invivo last Sunday. Already aware of Dedoose, I throughly enjoyed  discussing Invivo with my Amiga. . Discussing qualitative methods while dinning is great piece of quality itsfel. How  can we make every moment fruitful and use it effciently, that is what I am experiencing in this nourishing country.

*Coding in Invivo is called nodes.

* For example, suppose we are doing the research on romantic relationships… Then we can code transcript into noded like… pleasure, anger, love, affection, obsession. How obsessive  parner is in relationship, if this is the topic, then it is important to  highlight words

*Invivo give us the frequency of all words. Then it make the words bigger as per the word frequency, this is even available with google’s program.

*Kappa gives value when we compare the interpretation by various researchers on the same nodes.

I met one of Columbia Professors today, who has been doing extensive  qualitative research in India. I had qualitiful 10 minutes with this professor. She focussed light on her work in Rajasthan and how she is fond of Rajasthan and Udaipur. She is presently doing lot of work on  NGOs related things in India–How non governemnt organizations works inIndia.

“In our period it was more individual, now its more teamwork.

I still do it manually. Inivo just make it simple, it doenot do analysis.”

Her main foucs is on toursim now. Accroding to her, students are not that interested in  qualitative compared to quantitative. Probably, she hasn’t heard of our Lehman Professor 🙂

“The more I read the transcripts of the dinner conversation, listened to the tapes, and watched the videos, the more I became intrigued with the richness of dinner talk as a prime site of pragmatic socialization. ”

Author Shoshana Kulka

I just started reading this book, which entails beautiful description of conversation of Israeli Jewish families and American Jewish families when they dine together.  I am wondering how this book is so interesting in light of ethnographic and anthropological research 🙂

1) Law: Laub and Sampson study  (2003, 2004). It is I believe the lonest longitudinal study in crime academia.

2)Karr (2003) worked among homeless population and conducted oral history research.

3)Gimlin(2000) did biographical narratives of women who underwent plastic surgery. Most of the women assumed that woman’s merit is qualified by their looks.

4) Leavy and Rose (2006) investigated eating disorders among women and its psychological implication. They used oral histories.

5)  Di Gangi S, Naretto G, Vravero N. (2013) .A narrative-based study on communication by family members in intensive care unit. J Critical care

6) Tsui Ek (2012) Say ‘trouble’s gone’: chronic illness and employability in job training programs. Soc Health ill

Life and oral history Biographical research,Memoir,Oral history “ recorded in-depth nterview in narrative research”

Photographs, picutres are all types of unobstrusive methods.

In anthropology, narrative means “complete life story”

OLD…Three thousands years ago …Histographer of Zhou dynasty ..  p no. 111

Use of narrative:

•  Medicine,
• Anthropology,
• Psychology
• Folklore
• Law
• Journalism
• Sociology

“storytelling is the way of conveying the message.” It is the voice for those who are marginalized.

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Source:reading from book: Q R methods Liamputtong )

Conversation is the dollar of  qualitative research.

Researchers listen to dream, fear and hopes.

The interview is specific form of conversation where knowledge is produced.

Intimacy and mutual self-disclosure.

Researchers see the world through participant’s lens.

Recently there was gangrspe of one medical student and she was brutally beaten. Eventually she died in fighting for life after 15 days. The incident received international coverage and people demanded death penalty for the culprits. Now there is a need to study people attitude towards the death penalty.

Dragnet model?
Parisian cafe model?
Indepth interviews are suitable for grounded theory .
The same is also closely associated with feminist.

Jerry springer and Oprah winfrey..

Thematically to produce knowledge and dynamically to enhance interpersonal relationship.

Douglas and Rasmussen ” nude beach virgin”

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(source:  notes derived from  book “Q Research methods “Liamputtong )

ASIF PATEL

Doesn’t it sound funny as Geometry in qualitative research methods? I was wondering why this word exist in Qualitative dictionary. From two landmarks, you can decide third landmark. I do not know how much accurate I am in interpreting the meaning of this mathematical term here.

Traingulation can be from..

more than one theory,

more than one researchers,

more than one participant

more than one method

and finally more than???? fifth one I am leaving to curiosity… Guess????

For example, there are two students, who are evaluating the confused teaching method of instructor, and then another third student joins and do the research on confused style of teaching, as a result of triangulation, we can conclude that the concerned instructor is confused  and it confusions can affect students learning process. This is an example of triangulation with number of researchers.