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Nursing Research
Ch. 10
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Nursing
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06/17/2011

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Emergent design
Definition
a design that emerges as make ongoing decisions reflecting what has already been learned
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Bricoleur
Definition
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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Mutual shaping
Definition
everything influences everything else, in the here and now
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Ethnography
Definition
a discipline of anthropology that is concerned with human cultures
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Ethnoscience
Definition
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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Phenomenology
Definition
focuses on the lived experiences of humans
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Hermeneutics
Definition
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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Human ethology
Definition
the biology of human behavior; studies behavior as it evolves in its natural context
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Grounded theory
Definition
tradition that seeks to describe and understand key social psychologic and structural processes in social settings
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Ethnomethodology
Definition
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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Discourse analysis
Definition
seeks to understand the rules, mechanisms, and structure of conversions
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Historical research
Definition
the systematic collection and critical evaluation of data relating to past occurrences; a tradition that relies primarily on qualitative data
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Culture
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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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Field work
Definition
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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Macroethnography
Definition
ethnographic research that is concerned with broadly defined cultures
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Microethnography
Definition
ethnographic research that is focused on more narrowly defined cultures
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Emic perspective
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refers to the way the members of the culture regard their world
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Etic perspective
Definition
the outsiders' interpretation of the experiences of that culture
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Tacit knowledge
Definition
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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Participant observation
Definition
observations that ethnographers make of the culture under study while participating in its activities
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Key informants
Definition
individuals who help ethnographers understand and interpret the events and activities being observed
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Ethnonursing research
Definition
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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autoethnography
Definition
a type of ethnography that involves self-scrutiny
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being-in-the-world
(embodiment)
Definition
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
Definition
carefully portrays the ordinary conscious experience of everyday life--a depiction of "things" as people experience them
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Bracketing
Definition
refers to the process of identifying and holding in abeyance preconceived beliefs and opinions about the phenomenon under study
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Reflexive journals
Definition
journaling that is often done by phenomenological researchers in their efforts to bracket
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Intuiting
Definition
occurs when researchers remain open to the meanings attributed to the phenomenon by those who have experienced it
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Interpretive phenomenology
Definition
lived experience is inherently an interpretive process
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Hermeneutic circle
Definition
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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Symbolic interaction
Definition
focuses on the manner in which people make sense of social interactions and the interpretations they attach to social symbols
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Core variable
Definition
the manner in which people resolve the main concern in grounded theory
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Basic social process
Definition
a type of core variable
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Constant comparison
Definition
a procedure used to develop and refine theoretically relevant concepts and categories
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Conceptual description
Definition
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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Case studies
Definition
in-depth investigations of a single entity or a small number of entities
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Narrative analysis
Definition
focuses on story as the object of inquiry, to determine how individuals make sense of events in their lives
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Pentadic dramatism
Definition
another approach for analysis of narratives; five key elements of a story: act, scene, agent, agency, and prupose
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Content analysis
Definition
an analysis of themes and patterns that emerge in the narrative content
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Descriptive qualitative studies
Definition
qualitative studies that do not have a formal name or do not fit into normal typology
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Critical theory
Definition
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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Critical ethnography
Definition
focuses on raising consciousness and aiding emancipatory goals in the hope of effecting social change
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Feminist research
Definition
similar to critical theory, but the focus is sharply on gender domination and descrimination within patriarchal societies
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Participatory action research
(PAR)
Definition
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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