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o NOTE: it is challenging to draw the boundaries of prior 2.2) Hermeneutics tradition assumes that all understanding
literature or figure out what books and articles comprise is based on language and cultural world of beliefs,
a 'prior literature' as relevant articles will use different theories, codes, metaphors, myths, practices,
terminologies.
institutions, and ideologies that shapes our
understandings.
• It’s recommended to look for concepts & constructs
that are 'taken for granted', for assumptions that are
routinely made but not universal, for processes that have NOTE: It ask how cultural notions are shaping our
been ignored or incompletely understood. experiences and actions.
2.3) Postmodern tradition challenges widely shared cultural NOTE: It ask questions regarding the factors that help to
accounts, unwarranted universalisms, or taken-for- explain a particular phenomenon, or the consequences that may
granted understandings that offer explanations for arise when a particular phenomenon occurs.
phenomena or how things work.
Contingent conditions شروط عرضية أو راهنةcan be found in research
NOTE: It may offer alternative and dialectical projects trying to find patterned regularities in research phenomenon
perspective or accounts for the phenomena of interest. انتظامات نمطية في ظاهرة البحث
• Critical Tradition Data Collection: Mainly done by: 5. Qualitative research design involves
o Interviews A. Emergent design B. Correlative design
o Ethnography C. Experimental design D. Cohort design
• Semiotic tradition Data collection: Mainly done by: 6. Which of the following qualitative methods focuses on
o Archival communicative texts description and interpretation of cultural behavior?
o Interview textual data A. Phenomenology B. Grounded theory
o NOTE: observational and ethnography is not C. Ethnography D. Symbolic interactionism
suitable here.
7. The term refers to the use of multiple referents to draw
• Neo-positivist traditions Data Collection: conclusions about what constitutes the truth:
o Can use any and every type of data. A. Item analysis B. Factor analysis
o Seeks triangulation across data sources and C. Error measurement D. Triangulation
compares insights among them and check
convergence.
8. Characteristics of qualitative research design are 13.
A. Flexible and elastic design
B. Use of mixed methodologies
C. Ongoing analysis to formulate subsequent strategies
D. Researcher becomes the instrument
E. All of the above