Ydev 560 Blog #6 Coding Qualitative Data

 Coding Qualitative Data

Outside of some definitions what stood out to me was the vocabulary used< I found myself creating a vocabulary list and not feeling guilty about it but instead embracing new language to use. 

Vocabulary Words 

Generalizability: the degree to which you can apply the results of your study to a broader context. 

Comparability: the fact or quality of being similar and able to be compared

Prestructuring: to make something into or provide with a structure in advanced. 

Ethnoscience approaches seeks to document categories and terms for landscapes and features.    

Cognitive anthropology: seek to explain patterns of knowledge, cultural innovation, and transmission over time and space using methods and theories of cognitive sciences often through close collaboration with specialist engaged in the description and interpretation of cultural forms. 

Operationalizing: turning unmeasurable things (abstract concepts) into measurable observations. (How do we collect data?)

design- what happens to data before it is collected 

Research relationships are an important aspect to our research. Two questions you should ask yourself before thinking about engaging with participants.

• what kinds of relationships do you WANT to have?
• what needs to be done in order to establish such relationships?

QUALITATIVE IS PURPOSEFUL SAMPLING- deliberate.

When I read material like this, I look forward to being in class to make sense of it all in laymen's terms.

What I believe to be true is research is complicated and challenging. 

Blog 2- Post Positivism, Constructivism and Critical Theory

 

I have to be honest. I stayed up for four hours trying to get a clear understanding of all these research ideologies. At one point, I thought understood it but now I am not sure about anything except my present state of confusion. 

however, from what I do know led me to believe I may be a post positivist. In order for me to explain this I had to think of an example that made sense and bought me understanding. My example is the wonder of creation. in my lived experience people either believe firmly in the Big Bang Theory or the biblical belief that the earth was created by God. What is true is that no matter what you believe, we can agree that it is a phenomenon.  Scholars and ordinary people have debated this particular example forever and still the question is, do we really know? What we do know is there is a reality (truth) out there that exist independently from our thoughts or opinions. And because of this, there is no perfect way to explain reality because it's based off our lived experiences and our experiences can alter what we thinks is true.

So, if I were to take Post Positivist approach to my questions I wrote, I would have to accept that in looking for answers, I may never find an absolute truth. As I absorb this reality, I know that absolute truths will always elude me because there will always be a degree of uncertainty.

In conclusion, reality is definitely out there but we may be limited in our ability to capture it. Now that is something for me to ponder on.

Questions Blog 1

 20 QUESTIONS

1. Why is there so much hate in this world?
2. Why is tuition so high? 
3. Why do people take kindness for granted?
4. Why are people so ungrateful? 
5. Why do people of color have to work harder to prove their worth?
6. How come we don't have universal healthcare in the United States?
7. What are we doing as a society about homelessness in America?
8. Why is rent so high?
9. How come states aren't regulating rent control?
10. Why are women underpaid?
11. Why does this country fail to acknowledge its true history?
12. Why do I have to code switch?
13. Why is gas so high??
14. Why do kids have to live two miles before they can get a bus assigned?
15. How come the Supreme Court don't have termed appointments or age restrictions?
16. How come we haven't changed the qualifications for Presidency?
17. How come we don't have age and term restrictions for government officials?
18. why is it taking so long to convict our former President?
19. Why is Daycare so expensive?
20. Why don't we have free universal daycare?

Five what ifs'.......

1. What if we all led with love instead of assumptions and hate?
2. What if reparations were given to Native Americans?
3. What if everyone could attend college for free.?
4. What if everyone had a four-day workweek?
5. What if teachers were celebrated instead of ridiculed?