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RESEARCH METHOD:
What will you do?
Having selected the topic which interests us, the first thing that must be in research is
to negotiate with the research objects. Rapport, in Webster’s New College Dictionary, is relation
research will be not conducted. This relationship affects not only on researcher and observed
objects, but also on the entire research design. Researcher is part of the study which so-called
reflexivity.
Rapport is belief, and belief is a visa to enter respondents’ world in order to make them
mechanism to minimize psychology distance, relax the situation, and establish the respondents’
2. Determining sample
In research, determining samples is not only applied to human kinds as
Actually we can use probability sampling as we assume that samples represent its
population. We can also use stratified sampling if the samples and characteristics are
(1996) in Alwasilah (2006) that there some reasons why we should use purposeful
sampling:
2. To homogenate in population.
event, or individual.
translatability. Determining sample is not static but dynamic from phase to phase.
3. Collecting Data
We have to figure out some theoretical assumptions about collecting data.
2. The researcher uses triangulation to get complete data. Triangulation is useful because
some reasons:
According to Green et al, Creswell (1994:175) there are five purposes of research
combination method.
1. Look for convergence of research results
3. Develop research results, that previous methods facilitate the coming methods
4. Find out the solution when there are contradictive findings or new perspective.
3.1. Survey
The most popular in descriptive research is survey or questioner. It describes
3. Relationship among characteristics, attitudes, and events or phenomenon that have been
observed.
3.2. Experiment
This is commonly used in quantitative research or scientific methods. The main
inferred from sensory observation. The goal of this method is to explain why something
happens. Researcher controls the situation and manipulates or treats on a variable then
observes it. He has to compare between manipulated situation and natural situation.
3.3. Interview
Interview is used to gather information that cannot be attained by observation.
Researcher can get in-depth information using observation because some factors:
Respondents can tell something that happens in the past and in the future.
Meanwhile, the disadvantage of interview is that the respondents may be not
themselves. In this respect, respondents will tend to conclude that researchers want
3.4. Observation
This technique gives researcher the chance to infer a conclusion about meaning,
theory-in-use (how theory is directly used) and respondents’ perspectives that cannot be
The disadvantages of observation are tendency to disturb situation and make the
background no more natural and some respondents may be threaten because their
attitudes are documented. A good researcher must be careful to make sure all
something (Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary). While Guba and Lincoln (1981:333)
Record is every written note which prepared to prove or to calculate an event. E.g.
Document is the written or filmed things, save record, which not specially prepared for
the researcher himself. E.g. letter, memoir, autobiography, diary, journal, text book, paper
and so on.
These are important as supporting proofs. All documents must be analyzed, and enclosed
in thesis. It is necessary because of some reasons (Guba & Lincoln: 1981) namely:
2. Document becomes the proof to defend our selves towards some criticisms or
misinterpretation.
3. Document is a natural resource data not only appears from its context but also
5. Document is a resource data which is not reactive. When respondents are reactive
6. Document is a completing resource and enriching information that have been got
In qualitative there are only four essential methods which used namely;
1. Observation
2. Text analysis/Document
3. Interview
4. Transcription.
he finishes first observation or interview, then he writes its report. Having written the
sure that every phase of collecting data is guided by clear focus. Every analysis has
Actually when we write a memo we begin our analysis data. By memo, we get freedom
4.2. Coding
In analyzing transcript of interview or field note, we need to code consistently for
The tentative phenomenon is useful to focus on the research. The focus on research
brings about to later leading questions in the next interview on the same respondents or
on the new respondents. The focus on research can also change the wording or the
4.3. Categorization
The important strategy to categorize findings is coding. In qualitative research,
Maxwell (1996:78-9) coding is to fracture the data and rearrange it into categories that
facilitate the comparison of data within and between these categories and that aid in the
inductively from field data (grounded). One of general strategies that used in analyzing
data is general strategy (the opposite: Operational strategy). It is based on theoretical
prepositions that help to focus on certain data and ignore the other data.
4.4. Contextualization
Another strategy to analyze data is contextualization which includes some
techniques as Maxwell (1996) said, namely cases study, profile, some discourse analysis,
narrative analysis, and micro ethnography analysis. These strategies have the same
features namely; not looking for the equality to include in categories which are free from
contexts but looking for relationship between statements and events in a context.
4.5. Display
Display is included in analytical strategy in analyzing and interpreting qualitative
data. Display covers matrix or table, networks or concept chart, flowchart, diagram, and
so on.
It is how to process data analytically when researcher collects the data. The
collected data should be classified in some achieves such as the archives of interview, the