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Clinical Research Quiz 3 pt 1

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Archives   a collection of historical documents or records providing information about a place, institution, or group of people.  
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Autoethnography/Insider research   a type of ethnography involving self scrutiny (including study of groups or cultures to which researchers belong); demands researchers maintain consciousness of their role & monitor their internal state and their interactionsw/ other during the study  
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Being-in-the-world/Embodiment   concept acknowledging people’s physical ties to their world thru senses, & are conscious through their bodies’ interaction w/ world; in-depth group  
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Bracketing   in qual. Research, when researcher suspends knowledge about an experience; process of identifying & suspending preconceived beliefs/opinions about t/ phenomenon under study (step 1 in descriptive phenomenology)  
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Bricolage   term referring to the deliberate mixing of qualitative methods and ways of thinking in order to address a specific issue or problem  
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Bricoleur   A person who constructs bricolages, one who creates using whatever materials are available  
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Case study   in-depth investigation of a single entity (or small number of entities), in attempt to analyze & understand issues import to its history, development, or circumstances  
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Cognitive anthropology/ Ethnoscience   focuses on cognitive world of a culture, w/ particular emphasis on the semantic rules and shared meanings that shape behavior; i.e. the assumption that a group’s cultural knowledge is reflected in its language.  
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Constant comparison   procedure in grounded theory analysis where newly collected data are compared in continuously w/ previously obtained data in attempt to assess similarity  
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Content analysis   analysis of themes and patterns that emerge in the narrative content  
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Critical ethnography   ethnography that focuses on raising consciousness in t/ group or culture under study in hopes of effecting social change; study done in Canada on communication, silence, and power  
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Critical theory   an approach to viewing the world involving a critique of society, w/ t/ goal of envisioning new possibilities & effecting social change  
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Descriptive qualitative study   qualitative studies w/o formal name  
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(descriptive phenomenology)   careful description of ordinary conscious experience of everyday life—description of “things” as people experience them; i.e. sight, belief, memories, decisions, etc.; It involves 4 steps: bracketing, intuiting, analyzing, and describing  
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Discourse analysis   a tradition seeking to understand the rules, mechanisms, & structure of conversations & texts; seeks to understand t/ action that a given kind of talk “performs”  
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Ecologic psychology   focuses on the influence of the environment on human behavior, and attempts to identify interdependence on being affected by and affecting the environment one is in  
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Emergent design   a type of design in qualitative studies that evolves as researchers make ongoing decisions reflecting what has already been learned  
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Emic perspective   perspective of the group studied; i.e. what do participants say? t/ way MEMBERS of the culture envision their world  
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Ethnography   the study of cultural patterns and experiences in a holistic fashion; studies tacit cultural knowledge. The researcher is t/ instrument i.e. fieldwork, participant observer, interviews with key informant  
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Ethnomethodologic experiment   seeks to examine people's reactions to violations of commonly accepted social rules or norms  
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Ethnomethodology   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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Ethnonursing research   coined by Leininger, it’s t/ study & analysis of t/ local or indigenous people’s viewpoints, beliefs, & practices about nursing care behavior & processes of designated cultures  
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Ethology   the biology of human behavior; studies behavior as it evolves in its natural context; uses fieldwork  
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Etic perspective   t/ way OUTSIDERS interpret experiences of a culture; i.e. how do I analyze what has been said? Look at theories with a "t" etic "T";  
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External criticism   in historical research, t/ systematic evaluation of the authenticity and genuineness of data; ex. Find a diary written by past person, “is it her handwriting, is the paper of the right time period, is this the right writing style?”  
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Feminist research   research seeking to understand how gender and a gendered social order shape women’s lives and their consciousness  
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Finding aids   resources that tell researchers what’s in the archive  
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Formal grounded theory   a theory about a substantive grounded theory’s core category that’s extended by sampling widely in a range of substantive areas  
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Grounded theory   may use observation and interview to describe a social process; it is a constant comparison  
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Hermeneutics   using LIVED EXPERIENCES as a tool for better understanding t/ social, cultural, political, or historical context in which the experiences occur; focuses on meaning & interpretation of object  
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Historical research   histories or biographical social intellectual and technological that uses primary and secondary source data; systematic collection and critical evaluation of data relating to past occurrences  
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Internal criticism   in historical research, an eval of WORTH of historical evidence; ex. question if a writer’s perspective of historical events are unbiased, was that author in t/position to make a valid report of occurrence, was t/ document writer competent?  
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Intuiting   2nd step in descriptive phenomenology; when researchers stay open to meanings attributed to the phenomenon by those who hv experienced it  
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Key informants   a people knowledgeable about the phenomenon of research interest & who is willing to share info & insights w/ t/ researcher  
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Lived body   (corporeality); the phenomenological fact that we are always bodily in the world; i.e. critical gaze: body may look awkward, & motions appear clumsy, but w/ admiring gaze: body may surpass its usual grace & its normal abilities  
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Lived human relation   (relationality); the lived relation we maintain with others in the interpersonal space that we share with them  
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Lived space   (spatiality): inquiring into the ways we experience spatial dimensions of our day-to-day existence; space in which we find ourselves affects the way we feel  
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Lived time   (temporality); temporal dimensions of past, present, and future constituting the horizons of a person’s temporal landscape; our temporal way of being in the world (t/ subjective look at time in the future or past)  
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Macroethnography   focuses on our culture polycon; research focused on BROADLY DEFINED CULTURES  
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Metasynthesis   Analyzing facts & bringing together findings to form a conclusion  
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Microethnography   “FOCUSED” community institution shared lifestyle, experience or event; i.e. specific illness or medical event; NARROWLY DEFINED CULTURES; fine-grained studies of either small units in a group or culture, or of specific activities in an organizational  
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Narrative analysis   t/ focus on the STORY as the object of inquiry, to examine how individuals make sense of events in their lives;  
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Participant observation   strategy in which ethnographers make observations of the culture while PARTICIPATING in its activities  
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Participatory action research (PAR)   ENGAGES PARTICIPANTS in the process and goals of the research  
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Phenomenological reduction   suspending judgment about the natural world to instead focus on analysis of mental experience  
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Phenomenology   disciplinary roots in philosophy and psychology; focuses on meaning of lived human experiences; uses interviews for human experience; strives to understand t/ ESSENCE & meaning of a phenomenon; developed by Husserl & Heidegger  
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Primary source   first hand information; i.e. original documents, relics, artifacts, diaries  
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Qualitative outcome analysis (QOA)   evaluating nursing interventions for complex clinical phenomena  
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Researcher as instrument   describes the significant role ethnographers play in analyzing and interpreting a culture  
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Secondary source   2nd or 3rd hand accounts of historical events or experiences; i.e. textbooks, ref bks, newspaper articles, (discussions/summaries of events written by those who didn’t participate in them)  
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Semiotics   sometimes used by symbolic interactionists, this is t/ study of signs & their meanings  
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Substantive theory   grounded data on a specific substantive area; i.e. postpartum depression; TRANSFERABLE, rather than generalizable, in the sense that elements of the context can be transferred to contexts of action with similar characteristics to the context under study  
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Symbolic interaction   sociological and social-psychological tradition; focuses on the manner in which people make sense of social interaction & t/ interpretations they attach to social symbols, such as language  
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Tacit knowledge   info about t/ culture that is so deeply embedded in cultural experiences that members don’t talk about it or may not even be consciously aware of it  
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