Exam 16: Phenomenology, Ethnography, and Grounded Theory

Shared beliefs refer to:

Phenomenology, ethnography, and grounded theory studies all investigate the impact of culture on participants.

The purpose of a grounded theory study is to:

Describe how one would conduct phenomenological research on being a graduate student.

The final reports for grounded theory, phenomenological, and ethnography studies are all structured in the same way.

A researcher studies what it is like to experience learning from a bad teacher. This would be an example of which type of qualitative research?

Define and explain phenomenology.

Which approach to qualitative research focuses on describing a culture or culture scenes?

Triangulation of data is important in grounded theory studies and ethnographies.

Define and explain ethnography.

Narrative reports in phenomenological studies:

In analyzing the data in phenomenological and grounded theory studies common activities include:

The researcher knows it is time to stop coding data when he or she has reached the theoretical saturation point.

Compare and contrast what is learned from research studies using phenomenology, ethnography, and grounded theory approaches.

The disciplinary origin of ethnography is:

Grounded theory:

Compare and contrast the three major approaches to qualitative research discussed in this chapter: phenomenology, ethnography, and grounded theory.

The purpose of a phenomenological study is to:

A researcher studies how students who drop out of high school experienced high school. She found that it was common for such students to report that they felt like they had little control of their destiny. Her report that this lack of control was an invariant part of the students' experiences suggests that lack of control is _______ of the "flunking out" experience.

John was studying the cultural pasts of African American students in different regions of the country. This is an example of: