DEFINITION CHARACTERISTICS AND ETHICS

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DEFINITION CHARACTERISTICS AND ETHICS

Name the character


Type in the name of the character whose change throughout the story you are going to analyze.

Example: Nick Carraway.

CHARACTERISTICS INVESTIGATION CUALITATIVE

Character's behavior

Think of the character's behavior at the beginning of the story and look for the way it changed throughout the story.

Ethical considerations

Avoid research sites where participants may feel coerced to participate in the research. Honour the participants’ privacy. Consider difference in participants’ time commitment. Protect participants’ identities to avoid embarrassment or harm. Treat participants with respect and seek their cooperation in the research. Negotiate with the participants the terms of the agreement to do a study. Tell the truth when writing up and reporting the findings.

Codes of ethics have to be set by researches in order to protect participants and support ethical approaches to fieldwork. Bodgan and Biklen highlight the following basic ethical considerations:

Change in behavior

How did the character change the first behavior you mentioned? Type in a quote to prove your statement.

Example: Nick assumes the whole responsibility for Gatsby's funeral arrangements, 'with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end.'

Different Types of Qualitative

Descriptive data: Los artículos e informes cualitativos a menudo contienen citas para narrar una situación particular con la mayor precisión posible.

Inductive: Qualitative research analyses the data in an inductive which means that theories or concepts are built on the base of gathering data. This approach uses a bottom-up direction to understand situations, focus on behaviours, construct theories and reach conclusions.

Meaning: Element is to capture perspectives as precise as possible. For this, sometimes researcher’s interpretations will be checked with those of the participants; and even though this procedure is criticized, this reflects a deep concern to discover “what they are experiencing, how they interpret their experiences, and how they themselves structure the social world in which they live

NATURALISTIC: Defined as a no experimental approach in which subjects are studied in their natural settings.

Initial behavior

How does the character act at the beginning of the story? Type in a relevant quote for your statement.

Example: Nick shows his immature side as he leaves to New York in order to avoid 'being rumored into marriage' with his girlfriend.

DEFINITION INVESTIGATION CUALITATIVE

Character's feelings

Focus on the way the character's feelings are presented at the beginning and at the end of the story, while explaining why they have changed.

Dr. Leslie Curry (2015)

Explains that qualitative research is a strategy to collect, organise and interpret textual information systematically to generate insights into phenomena that are difficult to measure quantitatively.

The reason for the change of feelings

What caused the character to change the first belief you mentioned? Type in the reason for the change.

Example: disgust towards the lack of morality in the Buchanan family.

Sharan B. Merriam

Merriam states (2009) that “Qualitative researchers are interested in understanding the meaning people have constructed, that is, how people make sense of their world and the experiences they have in the world.

Change of feelings

In what way did the character change the feeling you mentioned?

Type in a quote to support your statement.

Example: 'They are a rotten crowd. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.' - Nick criticizing the Buchanans.

JOHN CRESWELL

In this inquiry process, a qualitative research builds a complex and holistic picture, analyses words, reports detailed views of informants, and conducts the study in a natural setting.

Initial feelings

What was the character's initial belief? Type in a relevant quote.

Example: 'seems like the ragged edge of the universe' - Nick talking about Midwest, the place where he grew up.

John Creswell (1994) defines qualitative research as an inquiry process of understanding that is based on distinct methodological traditions of inquiry to explore a social or human problem

Initial feelings


How does the character feel about a certain subject at the beginning of the story? Type in a relevant quote to support your statement.

Example: "Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope."