scholarly journals Mysteries and Qualitative Research? Review of Mats Alvesson and Dan Kärreman’s Qualitative Research and Theory Development: Mystery as Method

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Strong
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Research Review ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Interpretive Approach ◽  
Empirical Material

In an era of postmodern and social constructionist thought, qualitative researchers have experienced method as a mess. This time of conflict and tension has contributed to concerns and questions about researchers’ interpretive and reflexive contributions to the study of social reality. Into these confusing times, Mats Alvesson and Dan Kärreman, social constructionist researchers, take a novel approach to how qualitative research can inform theory development. They suggest researchers embrace the mysteries when trying to make sense of social situations by taking a reflective and interpretive approach towards their empirical material to create results that can challenge established theory and thus inspire novel lines of theory development.

scholarly journals PENDIDIKAN TINGGI KRISTEN DI INDONESIA: Sarjana Pantekosta Berebut Ruang di Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elia Tambunan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Christian Higher Education ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Strategic Position

Pentecostal studies are too prevalent in terms revivalism, movements, and denominations globally. This paper is different because of the anthropological aspects of Pentecostalism outlines how intellectuals Pantecost defines itself in a variety of social situations in which they live. Through a combined quantitative and qualitative research, the authors found Pantecostal scholars find themselves in the time of torpor to redefine themselves and their strategic position in the social reality. Pantecostal scholars could be seen as a representation of the face of Christian higher education in Indonesia. The time of torpor in Pantecostal scholars start from the process of education in higher education who have feelings too in love with its own identity so that the bad impact on the general principles of a system of community-wide. This paper can be seen as a Pantecostal Church in Indonesia (GPdI) scholar contribution towards Pentecostal studies globally from the anthropologist perspective with the Pantecostal scholar use as the unit of analysis in the study of religion is still rarely used by the religious scholar in Indonesia. === Studi Pentakosta yang ada terlalu lazim dalam hal revivalisme, gerakan-gerakan, dan denominasi secara global. Tulisan ini berbeda karena menguraikan Pentakostalisme dari aspek antropologis bagaimana kaum intelektual Pantekosta mendefinisikan dirinya sendiri dalam berbagai situasi sosial di mana mereka hidup. Lewat penelitian gabungan kuantitatif dan kualitatif, penulis menemukan kelambanan sarjana Pantekosta untuk mendefinisikan ulang diri dan posisi strategis mereka dalam realitas sosial yang sangat luas. Sarjana Pantekosta bisa dilihat sebagai representasi wajah pendidikan tinggi Kristen di Indonesia. Kelambanan itu bermula dari proses pendidikan sarjana di lembaga pendidikan tinggi yang memiliki perasaan terlalu cinta kepada identitas sendiri sehingga berdampak buruk pada prinsip-prinsip umum dari satu sistem masyarakat luas. Tulisan ini bisa dilihat sebagai satu kontribusi Gereja Pantekosta di Indonesia terhadap studi Pentakosta secara global dari sisi antropologis dengan menggunakan sarjana Pantekosta sebagai unit analisis dalam studi agama yang masih jarang dipakai sarjana keagamaan di Indonesia.

Conceptualizing Qualitative Data

2021 ◽  
pp. 104973232110249
Author(s):  
Alex Broom
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Wide Range

Qualitative research is practiced across diverse disciplines and contexts, and this produces a wide range of perspectives on the role of conceptualization and theory development. It also results in a hugely varied mix of submissions to qualitative research journals in terms of their level of conceptual elevation. This editorial explores why we conceptualize qualitative data, and some common challenges evident in current qualitative practice.

scholarly journals Defining key questions for clinical practice guidelines: a novel approach for developing clinically relevant questions

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha Chakraborty ◽  
Bianca Brijnath ◽  
Jacinta Dermentzis ◽  
Danielle Mazza
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Clinical Practice Guidelines ◽  
Practice Guidelines ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
International Guideline ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Clinical Questions ◽  
Key Questions

Abstract Background There is no standardised protocol for developing clinically relevant guideline questions. We aimed to create such a protocol and to apply it to developing a new guideline. Methods We reviewed international guideline manuals and, through consensus, combined steps for developing clinical questions to produce a best-practice protocol that incorporated qualitative research. The protocol was applied to develop clinical questions for a guideline for general practitioners. Results A best-practice protocol incorporating qualitative research was created. Using the protocol, we developed 10 clinical questions that spanned diagnosis, management and follow-up. Conclusions Guideline developers can apply this protocol to develop clinically relevant guideline questions.

scholarly journals Among Friends: The Role of Friendship in Alternative Organizations

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-265
Author(s):  
Monika Kostera ◽  
Marta Szeluga-Romańska
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Work Engagement ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Social Awareness ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
Workplace Friendship ◽  
History Of ◽  
Communication Culture ◽  
Alternative Organizations

Friendship, a mutual and profound relationship, permeates history of human culture and occurs in all social situations, including professional and informal human activities. In organizations, it devel­ops through processes of communication and generates a communication culture of kindness and support. Organizational friendship enhances work engagement and satisfaction, as well as helps to promote individual ends. This article investigates the more vital significance of friendship in alter­native organizations. Such organizations, operating at the margins of the currently dominant profit-oriented business model, offer a plethora of insights of possible structures and practices. Our ethno­graphic qualitative research shows the implications of workplace friendship as organizing principle. It helps to make organizations more humane, and redressed the moral imbalance, so prevalent in contemporary organizing and management. This has important implications for any kind of com­munication, creating social awareness around important themes related to management and organ­izations. Patterns of friendship are meaningful for organizing and organizations and their most vi­tal significance concerns the area of social communication.

scholarly journals Guidelines for Theory Development using Qualitative Research Approaches

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. pp95-103
Author(s):  
Noel Pearse
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Field Work ◽  
The Body ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Research Propositions

Qualitative research has been criticised for not building a distinctive body of knowledge, leading to fewer publications and citations. In the light of this critique, this paper offers guidance on how qualitative researchers can contribute to developing a distinctive and cumulative body of knowledge, thereby attracting more attention to their research. In pursuit of this aim, there are four objectives addressed in this paper. The first objective is to explain the relevance and value of deductive qualitative approaches to theory building. Secondly, to illustrate how examining the maturation of a concept can help decide the appropriateness of a particular research approach. This paper explains how in their planning, researchers need to confirm their intention to contribute to theory development and to ensure that this is appropriate, given the stage of maturation of the concept to be investigated. The third objective is to offer guidance on the philosophical assumptions of the researcher and how to test research propositions. Therefore, it is advised that data collection and analysis should take place within a post-positivist paradigm, and that the field work should be designed and carried out with research propositions as a point of departure. The final research objective is to explain how the findings of a deductive qualitative study should be handled to demonstrate the contribution of the study to the body of knowledge. Here guidance is offered on the contextualisation and generalisation of research findings.

Qualitative and Quantitative Paradigm Constellation In Educational Research Methodology

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 339-345
Author(s):  
Hilman Djafar ◽  
Rasid Yunus ◽  
Sarson W DJ Pomalato ◽  
Ruslan Rasid
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Fundamental Difference ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Research Article

Differences qualitative and quantitative research to academicians and researchers mainly concentrated on education  studies is only able to browse and identify with the fundamental difference merely as example: research that only uses quantitative data but using the qualitative as a benchmark often not considered as a quantitative research  Likewise ,  qualitative research that uses quantitative data is not considered qualitative research. If traced further, actually qualitative and quantitative research very spacious and is a level. Qualitative and quantitative research in the context of methodology includes a researcher's conception of social reality, the researcher's self placement in relation to the reality study and various other reviews. Therefore, in this research article,is stated that the correlation between qualitative and quantitative research in educational research methodology is possible if both are based on the same paradigm. Conversely qualitative and quantitative researchis difficult to reconcile if they depart from different paradigms, which have different epistemological assumptions, and different goodness criteria.

Zmiany w obszarze zatrudnienia migrantek i migrantów ukraińskich w powiecie tatrzańskim w kryzysie pandemii COVID-19. Prekarność a bezpieczeństwo i godziwość pracy

2021 ◽  
pp. 335-354
Author(s):  
Wiktor Magdziarz ◽  
Natalia Styrnol
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
Work Safety ◽  
Related Services ◽  
Precarious Work ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
Empirical Material

In this publication we present the results of qualitative research we carried out in July 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. It concerned support networks of Ukrainian migrants working in the Tatrzański county, Poland. Extensive empirical material that we have gathered allows us also to examine working conditions in the tourism-related services sector. We analyze them in the context of the concept of precarious work, opposing it to the ideas of work safety and decent work. We recall numerous examples of violation of workers’ rights and point out how the precarious position of migrant workers has additionally worsened during the crisis related to the coronavirus pandemic.

Ethics and democracy

2018 ◽  
pp. 156-178
Author(s):  
Mark Bevir ◽  
Jason Blakely
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Theory ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Interpretive Approach ◽  
The Status ◽  
Ethical Critique ◽  
Ethical Significance ◽  
Theory Of Democracy

An anti-naturalist approach overcomes the strict dichotomy between facts and values. Social scientists are free to take up ethically engaged research projects if they are so inclined. This chapter shows how political scientists working within an interpretive, anti-naturalist framework can legitimately take an interest in ethical critique, critical sociologies, and democratic theory. Indeed, anti-naturalist and interpretive philosophy offers social scientists: a better account of the status of values within social reality; an understanding of the ethical significance of the human past; and a critique of technocratic forms of political organization. Interpretive approaches are also linked to a more deliberative theory of democracy. All this implies social scientists have ethical and not just conceptual reasons for adopting an interpretive approach.

scholarly journals Topical Review: Crowdsourcing as a Novel Approach to Qualitative Research

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica Sood ◽  
Tim Wysocki ◽  
Melissa A Alderfer ◽  
Karen Aroian ◽  
Jennifer Christofferson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Emotional Engagement ◽  
Personal Contact ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Crowdsourced Data ◽  
Hard To Reach Populations ◽  
Five Phases ◽  
Iterative Feedback

Abstract Objective  To describe a novel, five-phase approach to collecting qualitative data from hard-to-reach populations using crowdsourcing methods. Methods  Drawing from experiences across recent studies with type 1 diabetes and congenital heart disease stakeholders, we describe five phases of crowdsourcing methodology, an innovative approach to conducting qualitative research within an online environment, and discuss relevant practical and ethical issues. Results  Phases of crowdsourcing methodology are: (I) Preparing; (II) Forming Crowds; (III) Collecting Crowdsourced Data; (IV) Coding and Analyzing Crowdsourced Data; and (V) Generating and Disseminating Findings. Iterative feedback from stakeholders is obtained in all five phases. Practical and ethical issues include accessing diverse stakeholders, emotional engagement of crowd participants, responsiveness and transparency of crowdsourcing methodology, and limited personal contact with crowd participants. Conclusions  Crowdsourcing is an innovative, efficient, feasible, and timely approach to engaging hard-to-reach populations in qualitative research.

Research Design in Team-Based Qualitative Research

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Team Formation ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Project Organization ◽  
Data Archiving ◽  
Project Management System ◽  
The Third ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Start Up

In the introduction to this chapter and interwoven throughout the text is the message that qualitative research begins and ends in writing, which in this case means that research design is a beginning point for that writing. This chapter is composed of three major sections that illustrate how team start-up is critical to how the writing will proceed down the line. The first section—Team Formation—provides detailed information on issues to consider in establishing the team in a manner that will be most beneficial to the conduct of qualitative research. The second section—Research Design and Project Organization—discusses early writing tasks, establishing a project management system, and the importance of linking all of this to a data archiving plan. Digital tools are discussed in some depth. The third section—Caring: Internalized and Externalized—suggests a novel approach to the issue of ethics and team management.

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