Sylabus
At the time of extraordinary measures and distance learning, the subject is taught through Microsoft Teams in the line with schedule. * Structure of lessons:
1. The origins of qualitative methods in biographical, historical and clinical research - method of life histories, oral history.
2. GT - research matter, sources of GT, theoretical sensitivity, maintaining balance between creativity and science.
3. Analytical steps of grounded theory - coding stages, 3 main types of coding (open, axial, selective).
4. Open coding - features, dimensions, dimensionalizing as the process of breaking down single features into their single dimensions - comparing and asking questions as 2 essential analytical ways - coining phenomenon, determining categories - developing features and dimensions of the categories, first cycle coding methods.
5. Techniques of increasing theoretical receptivity - Flip-flop Technique, systematic comparison of two or more phenomena (in the initial phase of analysis), comparing with further phenomena, waving red flag - what to do to overcome our thinking patterns and still retain our important experiences and the knowledge gained from reading.
6. Axial coding - sorting out data after open coding, conditioning influences, causing and intervening conditions, context, acting strategies and interactions, consequences - relating subcategories to categories, merging categories, connecting categories at the dimensional level, second cycle coding methods (Saladana
2009).
7. Selective coding - selecting one central category and its systematic introduction into relation with other categories, higher, more abstract level of analysis and, at the same time, similarity with axial coding, central category - central phenomena and assembling of other categories around - systematization and deepening links - heading towards proposing grounded theory.
8. Come back of the story - process of interconnecting sequences of acts and interactions involving the central phenomena and strengthening the dynamics of grounded theory - randomness, induction and deduction and the question of change - how and where does search for changes indicate process? - description of process.
9. Introducing presentations of personal projects, listening to recorded research interviews - mutual critical review of the interviews and their discussion.
10. Matrix of conditioning influences as an analytical tool for assessment of huge variety of conditioning influences and consequences related to the researched phenomena - recognition and lining single levels of conditions and consequences - grounded theory as a transaction system, conditioning trajectories, theories coming from empirical base - substantive versus formal theory.
11. Making samples emerging from rising theory, recordings and schemas, post-coding and pre-writing (Saldana
2009).
12. Presentation-discussion of personal projects on the base of preliminary research (that include at least 1 analyzed interview), final test. * Required reading: - STRAUSS, A., CORBIN, J. Basics of Qualitative Research: Grounded Theory Procedures and Techniques. Newbury Park: Sage,
1990. ISBN 978-0803932517. - SALDANA, J. The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers. Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington DC: Sage,
2009. ISBN 978-1-84787-549-5. - SILVERMAN, D. Interpreting Qualitative Data: Methods for Analyzing Talk, Text and Interaction. London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi: Sage,
2006. ISBN 0-7619-6865-2. * Recommended reading: - WEAVER E. S., COLEMAN M. A mothering but not a mother role: A grounded theory study of the nonresidential stepmother role. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 2005, 22(4): 477-497. ISSN 0265-4075 . - BOYLE D. E., MARSHALL L. N., ROBERTSON W. W. Gender at Play: Fourth-Grade Girls and Boys on the Playground. American Behavioral Scientist, 2003, 46(10): 1326-1345. ISSN 0002-7642. - ROGERS A. Chaos to Control: Men´s Magazines and the Mastering of Intimacy. Men and Masculinities, 2005, 8 (2): 175-194. ISSN 1097-184X . - DE SOUZA P., CICLITIRA K. Men and Dieting: A Qualitative Analysis. Journal of Health Psychology, 2005, 10 (6): 793-804. ISSN 1359-1053. - WOOD T. J. Monsters and victims: Male felons´ accounts of intimate partner violence. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 2004, 21(5): 555-576. ISSN 0265-4075 . - FAULKNER L. S., MANSFIELD P. K. Reconciling Messages: The Process of Sexual Talk for Latinas. Qualitative Health Research, 2002, 12 (3): 310-328. ISSN 1049-7323. - DRAUCKER B. C., STERN P. N. Women´s Responses to Sexual Violence by Male Intimates. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 2002, 22(4): 385-406. ISSN 0193-9459. - SANDERS T. Male Sexual Scripts: Intimacy, Sexuality and Pleasure in the Purchase of Commercial Sex. Sociology, 2008, 42 (3): 400 -
417. ISSN 0038-0385.
Anotace
Besides the actual introduction and presentation of grounded theory (GT) the course is based on analyzing and discussing the instances of already realized research employing GT. Along with that course-participants work individually on projects of their own and through their encounter with practice students identify concrete methodological and practical problems in research and discuss them in the seminar.
The course thus presents practical research ways and undertakings and, at the same time, serves as feedback in the course of outlining concrete individual research projects of the course-participants. The primary objective of the course is to provide students with knowledge and skills enabling them to undertake an independent GT based qualitative research.