The Focus Of A Thesis Applying Qualitative Research

The focus of a thesis applying qualitative research

Introduction.

In his writing entitled how to do a good thesis project with qualitative methodology, Miguel Martínez Miguélez, exposes the scheme and general lines to carry out a good thesis project under the line of a qualitative methodology, because it has been considered the mostappropriate for the phenomenon of the study in question. With the aim of helping students who, although they know what area they want to do their job, do not know how to do it, while universities demand the presentation of the project to ensure that they are doing serious, sensible, original and under the strict workRequired methodological rigor. It also makes clear that this scheme despite being standard, will not always be the best for all types of qualitative research, especially if they are atypical in some of their aspects.

The fundamental parts proposed by Martínez are:

• Always take into account that everything written is aimed at a receiver and that in this case is the evaluator.
• To carry out a good project, it is recommended that this does not have more than 30 pages and that in this the theoretical framework or other elements of the thesis that could move away the reader’s attention from its specific task is not presented.

Summary. 

You should not exceed a page, which is enough to fulfill your duty, to provide a general idea to the evaluator about the phenomenon to be studied, what its problem, the urgency and relevance for a specific population (a country, municipality, neighborhood, Institution, etc.

), The objectives to be achieved, the approach and the methodology used and any other element that is considered important to the above reflects the importance of the initial summary of the project.

Introduction. 

Your main mission introduce the evaluator in the problem that you want to investigate. through a description of the phenomenon its environment and the need to study this phenomenon. The epistemological and methodological approach that will be used, the relevance of the investigation, the objectives to be achieved and its possible originality. They will depend on the quality of said description.

Theoretical-referential framework.

 This is the part in which what has been done so far to clarify the phenomenon subject to investigation is exposed, referring to the main investigations that keep affinity with the development thesis, its authors, methods used, focus, conclusions and theoretical interpretationsthose who arrived. This framework should be clear is only a source of information whose utility must be to compare its final conclusions with those of the project in execution and not to be used as a theoretical framework in which to develop the project. Between five and six pages recommended.

Objectives of an investigation

• SOLUTION OF A PROBLEM. 

The qualitative methodology usually starts from a problematic area in which when an advance in research is reached, it is beginning to reveal problems that are possibly many intertwined with each other, so that generally starting from a problem underestimated the relationship or dependence ofThis with others, which is almost always latent in human reality. Although the utility or convenience of a specific problem is not denied, in a specific case.

• Verification of a hypothesis. No hypothesis to be verified, it is open to any hypothesis that arises from the study of the data and is imposed by their convincing force, so they are considered provisional, possibly they are modified during the process, the idea is that our perspective andvision is not limited. It is generally expected that the best hypothesis will be clearly revealed and there is no interest in verifying a specific hypothesis. Except for a researcher to leave a hypothesis, because he is interested in verifying it.
• Achievements of objectives. In the event that objectives to be achieved preferably can be achieved, possibly specific, the case is that everyone should be very important for those interested in research, it is advisable to determine the specific objectives in the development of the researchIn order to look for possibly trivial goals. The objectives may also be ready for changes, in the course a modification of objectives can arise and even replacement for another better.
• Methodology. The choice of a methodology implies the acceptance of a concept of science and knowledge, that is to say a previous epistemology option;and the oncological option (theory about the nature of reality). If you are not aware of this, the result is a series of disorienting consequences. A brief reference of these two theories must be included, where your central idea is exposed.
• Epistemological framework. The theory of knowledge or philosophy of science on which the qualitative model methodology is supported, rejects the specular (positivist) model, while accepting the specular model and most of the qualitative project evaluators or research, usually do so from the epistemological framework of the epistemological frameworkspecular (scientist-positivist), which is why the evaluation fails by the base. Given this situation, it is essential.
• The method. Each certain reality of an investigation requires a specific method belonging to the series of methods from which it provides the qualitative-systematic methodology, each with its characteristics that differentiates it from others. These methods are as follows:

1. Specific qualitative method.
2. Hermeneutical-diallectical method.
3. Phenomenological method.
4. Ethnographic method.
5. Research Method-Action.

Life history method.

• Information collection: The chosen method will depend, the procedures, the instruments and the strategies to be used, basically focus on semi-structured interview and direct observation. For the qualitative methodology, both the method and the instruments can change if the investigation advances so requires.
• The sample. It depends on each method, although it cannot be constituted by decontextualized random elements, because this is required by the ontological option, assumed by all methods. As the case may be important to collect the information according to sex variables, socioeconomic level, profession, age, etc., since the information can be different for each case.
• The categories. They must arise from the study of information. Variables. They arise when the theorization process begins, when they relate-compared-and-and-contrast the categories.

The essence of research work is categorization and theorization.

Bibliography.

• How to make a good thesis project (Miguel Martínez Miguélez)