Exam 16: Phenomenology, Ethnography, and Grounded Theory

A researcher studying schooling in an Asian culture. He collects descriptions of teachers from students and uses their words and terms to describe the values students have about teaching and learning in the culture. He is attempting to use _____ terms to describe teaching and learning in the Asian culture he is studying.

A researcher studying parenting in another culture uses terminology from scientific parenting theories developed in the U.S. to describe the parenting styles of parents in the culture. The researcher is using ______ terms.

A good grounded theory:

Fred is analyzing his data from his grounded theory study. He is spending a great deal of time going back and forth between the data he has collected and the theory that is developing. This is known as:

A researcher interviews 20-30 women who are in abusive relationships and from this research she develops a theory about the dynamics of abusive relationships. This would likely be an example of which type of qualitative research?

Shared beliefs, values, and norms are characteristics of:

Phenomenology, ethnography, and grounded theory all take a holistic approach to data analysis.

Phoebe is conducting a study involving men and women from four different countries. She is asking them about dating. Her study is an example of:

The primary focus of the narrative report in an ethnography is to focus on:

A researcher should first complete his or her ethnographic research and then complete an ethnohistoric study in order to better understand the information gathered.

Interpretative phenomenological analysis focuses on how people interpret their individual experiences.

It would be appropriate to study the organizations and people who take part in American football as a distinct culture because studying the phenomenon as a separate culture provides a way for a researcher to understand the group.

Which of the following is an example of a shared value?

Jean is conducting an ethnography. The first thing she will probably complete is:

The purpose of an ethnography is to:

In phenomenological research, only transcendental experiences are considered worthy of study.

A study that intends to describe the shared beliefs and practices of individuals living in a community in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains would be an example of which type of qualitative research?

Selective coding involves looking at the data and parsing data into discrete categories.