Exam 16: Phenomenology, Ethnography, and Grounded Theory

How would someone conduct ethnographic research involving students who have become refugees?

The following terms were used by high school students in a specific city: dorks, geeks, retard, surfers, airheads, rockers, band, and brains. These are examples of _____.

Hazel has been conducting an ethnography. She is six months into collecting data for her study and has just recently changed her research questions. What do we know?

Grounded theory involves collecting data to support existing theories.

Regina is studying middle school students. When describing their perceptions she uses the words they use everyday at school. We would say she is taking the _________ perspective.

When a researcher becomes so enmeshed in a culture that he or she loses the ability to see from other perspectives, this is called:

An autoethnography compares the researcher's culture to another culture.

Marie is describing how she feels in a particular situation. She is describing her:

Harry is conducting an ethnography. He views the culture through the eyes of members of the culture. He asks questions that are important to his participants. This is known as taking an _______ perspective.

Ron is conducting a research study. He is concerned with individual participant's individualized experiences rather than generalizing from their experiences to other's similar experiences. Ron is conducting:

The data analysis approach taken in grounded theory involves:

Two researchers were completing a qualitative study in which they compared two different cultures. This is known as:

When a researcher reflects back on previous coding stages to put the finishing touches and final focus on his or her theory, this is called:

A researcher who lives among his or her subjects for a very long time runs the risk of losing his or her objectivity or going native.

Some Americans judge individuals from other countries to be immoral because their culture's acceptance of nudity is vastly different from that of the U.S. This is an example of ethnocentrism.

When a grounded theorist has culled all the information and data relevant to his or her grounded theory from a particular context, this is called:

If a researcher is interested in gaining access to an individual's life-world, what type of a study would she be conducting?

When the researcher in a grounded theory study reviews data line-by-line and provides initial codes and labels for the data, this is called:

When a researcher in a grounded theory study develops and organizes previously developed concepts into categories and subcategories, this is called:

The term used to describe suspending preconceptions and learned feelings about a phenomenon is called: