Across
- 5. a step in grounded theory to find the main theme of the research (2 words)
- 6. objective descriptions about actions, dialogue and context (2 words)
- 7. the process in which researchers try to find the meaning of data, their essential patterns, and draw legitimate conclusions
- 8. method of collecting data about cognitive processes through participant audio recordings of thoughts and decisions (2 words)
- 9. having participants take photos of their social world and using these photos for discussion and analysis (2 words)
- 10. term for a researcher getting too emotionally involved with participants
- 13. interacting with a social group and striving to observe, ask questions, and record information within the contexts and structures that are relevant to the group (2 words)
- 14. following a person throughout a given activity or period during field research (2 words)
- 15. relating concepts to each other to form paradigms (2 words)
- 17. a phenomenology approach that views the text as a whole and tries to capture its meanings
- 18. the first of four levels of analysis in an ethnographic approach (2 words)
- 19. data are broken into parts and concepts identified to delineate properties and dimensions (2 words)
- 20. charts that visually depict the flow and magnitude of social conversations
Down
- 1. intensive exploration of a community to map important features (2 words)
- 2. subjective descriptions of the researcher’s personal experiences, reflections, and progress while in the field (2 words)
- 3. the first stage in constant comparative analysis that captures what is happening in the data (2 words)
- 4. a pattern that expresses the relationships among relational themes (2 words)
- 11. a type of core variable in grounded theory (3 words)
- 12. narrative self-disclosures about individuals’ life experiences (2 words)
- 16. a broad opening question during unstructured interviews (2 words)