With theoretical sense of touch, we can explore theory; Theoretical sense of touch is the ability of researchers to see deep phenomena with analytical eyes. In the early stage of research, we need to learn how to decipher our thoughts and cultivate a sense of theory by analyzing data.
1, ask questions
Researchers constantly ask questions about the data, aiming at stimulating thinking and finding out the possible categories, properties and orientations in the data. This will help us to ask questions more accurately in our next visit and guide the direction of reading literature.
This does not mean that when we ask questions, these questions will guide this data collection, but when we know what questions to ask, we can see the significance in the collected data and future analysis.
According to the collected data, we can ask some general questions without thinking, and each question will stimulate us to ask some more accurate and relevant questions, which will help us find the category, nature and orientation. These basic questions include: Who is it? What time? Where is it? What happened? How did it happen? To what extent? Why? 2. Analyze words, phrases and sentences. A detailed analysis of a word, phrase and sentence will give researchers a chance to open the data. This is a very valuable operational research. This word-for-word analysis, questioning and thinking about every word and sentence in the data, can highlight the meaning of the interviewee or the people around him. Even if the researchers have some preconceived assumptions, it is obvious. This analysis strategy will also make experienced analysts have to hide some preconceptions and help them open the data for analysis, which will benefit a lot.
The actual operation procedure is as follows: look at a record roughly, at least a few pages, then lock in any word, phrase or sentence that makes you feel important, prominent or interested, think clearly, and then list the meanings related to children, from possible to impossible.
We should confirm what the interviewees said in interactive interviews, or train ourselves to ask what the analytical words used by the interviewees mean, otherwise our theoretical development will be limited. 3. By doing more analysis and comparison, it is helpful to identify and classify concepts, and comparison is also helpful to stimulate the theoretical sense of researchers. Comparison can be used to break some assumptions made by researchers and discover some phenomena. But to achieve this goal, we must make full use of our professional knowledge, general knowledge and related academic literature. The following are the main comparison techniques: Theflip- floptechnique refers to reversing the concept you think is interesting and imagining its extreme counterexample. This kind of imagination is to compare the two poles in a certain direction from high to low.
A close comparison. For example, compare an overweight woman with another woman of just the right weight and attractive figure. Conclusion: Maybe your analysis will be the same as the literature. But what's important is that your theoretical analysis will be richer than the existing contents in the literature, because by asking questions, you can get out of the fixed and standardized ideas, explore other different ideas and have some fresh views on the data. Far ahead of the competition. Example: lifting weights and playing the violin. Far comparison strategies can help open up too many possibilities. Although it is not necessary to compare all the time, this far-reaching comparison can be made in order to break through the bottleneck or find out the essence and orientation of the phenomenon so as to continue to trace it. After that, I'll look at the data again. This time, there will be new discoveries because of a new understanding of "what is really revealed between the lines". The technology of waving the red flag also helps researchers to penetrate the obvious layers in the data. Everyone has inherited the same cultural tradition, and most of the ideas are similar, so it is difficult to find the assumptions that everyone uses. In other words, we are all based on some assumptions of cultural views, so that everyone will have the same blind spot, which is difficult to identify by questioning each other.
We must be very sensitive to certain words and phrases, for example, never, never, never do that. Everyone knows what it is and there is no need to discuss it. Every time you hear these words or phrases, you should shake the red flag in your heart to show your vigilance. These words and phrases are signals that need your further examination. Never take it for granted and stop exploring. Condition matrix is a powerful analytical tool, which can help us to capture the conditions and results of phenomena. When we trace the conditions and result paths related to a phenomenon at the matrix level, we can determine which levels are related, and then contact the phenomena they study through their influence on action/interaction.
Conditional matrix action/interaction: it is an analytical chart, which is helpful to think about many conditions and results and the relationship between the phenomena studied. This matrix can be used by researchers to distinguish and connect different levels of conditions and results.
Conditional path: In order to link the condition layer on the condition matrix with the results and phenomena studied, researchers trace the interaction level of an event, an accident and a thing back to the condition and result level at the outer edge of the matrix, or vice versa.