Exam 7: Content Analysis

The goal of critical methodology is to ______.

You are comparing songs from the Billboard Top 100 list from the 1970s to the current decade. You randomly select a number of weekly Billboard Chart lists from each of the two decades and analyze each song on the list. What type of sampling method are you using?

What steps would you need to take to protect the post authors and to generally keep the research in line with ethical guidelines?

A valid quantitative analysis is one that ______

What steps would you need to take to protect the post authors and to generally keep the research in line with ethical guidelines?

You are analyzing Instagram posts by people who have cancer or other life-threatening illnesses. Will you need to get informed consent?

You are studying the portrayal of the intersection of gender and social class in infomercials. What sampling method would you choose? Explain the various decisions that led you to make this choice.

You are analyzing pen pal e-mails between children in Kenya and the United States. Three social studies teachers at a junior high school in the United States have been using this pen pal project in their classes to promote cultural understanding and have been collecting copies of the e-mails over the last 10 years. Together, they have collected almost 50,000 e-mails. What sampling decisions would you have to make? Describe all the steps you ultimately would take to draw your sample.