Exam 10: Qualitative Methods

Field notes refer to those notes taken while a researcher is in the field.

What is the process where a researcher interviews each respondent (R1,R2,etc.)to learn how they "construct" their thoughts and feelings about the topic of concern?

Describe how qualitative analysis can proceed both inductively and deductively.Use examples from the text to describe each.

Intensive interviewing tends to contain highly structured questioning.

Which of the following is NOT a qualitative method?

How should a qualitative researcher select key informants for intensive interviews? What ethical considerations should be taken into account when conducting intensive interviews?

Brief notes written in the field about highlights of an observation period are called ______.

Covert participation can damage other social science by increasing distrust of social scientists.

Which of the following is FALSE about participant observation?

Qualitative research emphasizes variables over cases in causal explanations.

Focus groups are based on the elements of ______.

The use of ethnographic methods to study online communities is called ______.

Covert participants need to keep up "the act" at all times while in the setting under study.

Participant observers can increase rapport by faking social similarity with their subjects.

Should a recording device (such as a tape recorder)be used in an intensive interview? Discuss the advantages and disadvantages.

A researcher who goes to a coffee shop and clandestinely observes behavior,while taking jottings,is doing what kind of qualitative fieldwork?

When should focus groups be avoided?

Adaptation by the researcher to his or her influence in the research setting is referred to ______.

Which of the following is NOT a feature of qualitative research?

When an observer immerses himself or herself in a group for a long time,gradually establishing trust and experiencing the social world as do the participants,the observer is engaging in the process of ______.