Foundational and Advanced Perspectives in Qualitative Methods
DESCRIPTION OF THE ASSIGNMENT
3000 word assignment, +/- 10% (excluding references)
Choose two research articles that we either discussed during the classes, or that are relevant for your research, or that you simply find interesting. Critically discuss and compare, across the two articles:
1. The paradigmatic foundations, OR the theoretical perspective, OR the interpretative stance (OR a combination of those, depending on how much details you can infer from the papers) that they adopt, reflecting upon the ontological and epistemological implications.
2. The strategy for data collection and analysis, and the sample strategies that they adopt.
3. The type of analysis they conduct
How to choose the research articles:
• Articles can be in any social science discipline (sociology, political science, anthropology, social statistics, etc…)
• Articles need to report the results of an empirical research project
• At least ONE article needs to report a qualitative research project
• Articles can be compared because (select one or more criteria):
1. They research the same topic, but with different methodologies (different qualitative methods, or one qualitative and one quantitative)
2. They research different topics, but with similar methodologies
3. They share the same theoretical framework (eg: phenomenology) but with different qualitative (or qual/quant) methodologies
4. They share the same interpretative stance (eg: feminism) but with different qualitative (or qual/quant) methodologies
The files that uploaded are from the 7 lectures (which may be of help for the essay), required reading that goes with each lecture and examples of past essays with a score of 80%
there is no limit to the number of sources that can be used