Exam 8: Qualitative Methods and Data Analysis

One of the textbook authors is currently involved in a research project examining the factors related to ______.

Most field researchers adopt a role that involves some active participation in the setting.

Intensive interviewing relies on closed-ended questions.

An accounting by a qualitative researcher that describes the natural history of the development of the evidence is reflexivity.

Random selection is rarely used to select respondents for intensive interviews.

What are the steps to qualitative data analysis?

Computer programs such as HyperRESEARCH, ATLAS.ti, and QSR NVivo ______.

Ensuring that participants are participating in a study voluntarily is not often a problem with ______ but is often a point of contention with ______.

How is Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis accomplished? Describe the computer program QSR NVivo and how it was used by Bachman, Kerrison, O'Connell, & Paternoster (2013) in the case study: Narratives of Desistance From Crime and Substance Abuse.

The grounded theory approach develops general concepts from careful review of text or other qualitative materials and then ______.

The term 'participant observer' represents a continuum of roles.

What is ethnography?

Levitt, Swanger, and Butler (2008) used a systematic grounded method of analysis to understand the perspective of male perpetrators of violence on female victims.

The field research role that involves informing at least some group members of their research interests is ______.

In her study of community policing, which role did Susan Miller (1999) adopt?

The more involved researchers are in multiple aspects of an ongoing social situation, the more important personal issues become and the ______.

What are some ethical issues with regard to covert participation in research?

In field research, natural social processes are studied as they happen and left relatively undisturbed.

Qualitative data focuses on ______.

What is grounded theory?