Week 1 | Task 1

Cross-Disciplinary 

Disciplinary is a term used to describe types of knowledge, expertise, skills, people, projects, communities, problems, challenges, studies, inquiry, approaches, and research areas that are strongly associated with academic areas of study (academic discipline) or areas of professional practice (profession). For example, the phenomenon of gravitation is strongly associated with academic discipline of physics, and so gravitation is considered to be part of the disciplinary knowledge of physics.

Cross-disciplinary refers to knowledge that explains aspects of one discipline in terms of another. Common examples of cross-disciplinary approaches are studies of the physics of music or the politics of literature.

references : 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disciplinary

Inter-Disciplinary

Interdisciplinary involves the combining of two or more academic disciplines into one activity (e.g. a research project). It is about creating something new by crossing boundaries, and thinking across them. It is related to an interdiscipline or an interdisciplinary field, which is an organizational unit that crosses traditional boundaries between academic disciplines or schools of thought, as new needs and professions have emerged.

references :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdisciplinarity

Trans-Disciplinary

Describing a study which runs across traditional subject boundaries such as arts and science. Geography is often portrayed as a trans disciplinary subject since it has been concerned with the interplay between environment and humans, but many geographers argue that, with increasing specialization, the gulf between physical and human geographers has become very wide.

references : 

http://www.answers.com/topic/transdisciplinary

Qualitative Research

• Qualitative research is something that is related to or something that is concerned with quality rather than numeric values. It is derived from the Middle English word producing a primary quality. It is also considered to be an important in terms of subjects, where it is divided into two different terms.

• Business research into attitudes about an organization: market research into the attitudes, concerns, and behavior of an organization's members in relation to the organization

• Research collecting descriptive information: research that gives detailed descriptions and explanations of the phenomenon studied rather than providing and analyzing statistics

references: 

http://www.blurtit.com/q784613.html

Ethnographic Studies

Ethnography is the study of living cultures, and ethnographic research is the methodology and results of studying ethnography. Traditionally, ethnographers study nonindustrial cultures in the Americas, Africa, Asia and other continents, but today they are increasingly interested in modern postindustrial society.

references: 

http://www.ehow.com/facts_5804505_definition-ethnographic-research.html

Originating in anthropology, this term traditionally refers to a practice in which researchers spend long periods living within a culture in order to study it. The term has been adopted within qualitative market research to describe occasions where researchers spend time - hours, days or weeks - observing and/or interacting with participants in areas of their everyday lives. This contrasts with interview-based research in which interaction with respondents is limited to a conventional interview or group discussion format, is more limited in time, and often takes place outside the participant's own environment.

references: 

http://www.aqr.org.uk/glossary/?term=ethnography

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