Meta-ethnography: A Qualitative Research Method of Effective Comprehensive Integration
[Purpose/significance] Qualitative research method is an important part of academic research. This research mathematically summarizes the relevant research results of meta ethnography at home and abroad, and forms a relatively complete theoretical content, which provides a reference for scholars in the field of information behavior and other fields to choose research methods in the future. [Method/process] Based on the multi-disciplinary perspective, this paper used Web of Science to retrieve the related literature of meta-ethnography research methods, and used bibliometrics and content analysis to summarize the research status and application of meta-ethnography methods, in which the application part focused on introducing the research of meta-ethnography in the field of information behavior. [Results/conclusion] The meta-ethnographic method is one of the important methods for qualitative research, and there are few domestic studies on the use of meta-ethnographic method. This study summarizes the development history of meta-ethnography, the differences from other methods, applicable types and characteristics, implementation steps, and the application results of this method in existing disciplines, which will help scholars to fully understand the research methods of meta-ethnography.
Key words: qualitative research; methodology; meta-ethnography
Yang Yuqi . Meta-ethnography: A Qualitative Research Method of Effective Comprehensive Integration[J]. Knowledge Management Forum, 2020 , 5(5) : 329 -336 . DOI: 10.13266/j.issn.2095-5472.2020.031
表1 G. W. Noblit和R. D. Hare元人种志7个步骤 |
| 阶段 | 步骤名称 | 步骤描述 |
| 一 | 识别集成主题 | 为元人志的第一阶段,确定研究主题,为后续文献检索提供范围与方向 |
| 二 | 界定集成主题的内涵 | 根据研究主题进行文献检索,对检索的文章进行识别和选择 |
| 三 | 阅读原始研究 | 反复阅读最终确定的原始文献并详细阅读,对每一项研究的研究问题、研究过程、研究方法和研究结论进行详细的记录 |
| 四 | 确定研究之间的关系 | 这一步骤通过阅读原始研究确定研究维度,为下一步骤的相互转译奠定基础 |
| 五 | 研究间的相互转译 | 抽取独立原始研究中的原始概念转译为关键核心概念转译,这一步骤使得不同原始研究间的比较成为可能,但在转译过程中必须保留原文本的含义 |
| 六 | 合成转译 | 经上阶段转译结果的展示,如发现少部分原始研究对关键要素的表述并不完全一致,则需要对存在矛盾的研究结论之间进行对比分析和解释,通过二次诠释达到对互斥概念的理解,从而对上阶段的转译进行优化 |
| 七 | 展示集成成果 | 通过研究间的相互转译和驳斥集成对不同部分的对比分析后,将转译结果以文字或图形的形式整理并展现出来,最终形成对研究主题内容的整体认识 |
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