CH 10

Question 1

field research is usually what?

Answer 1

qualitative: it generates data in language/narrative form rather than quantitive form

Question 2

qualitative field research closely parallels what?

Answer 2

our own daily observations/ participation in social life

Question 3

qualitative field research requires what?

Answer 3

skills and techniques that make observations of social life systematic and deliberate

Question 4

qualitative field research is useful in collecting what?

Answer 4

data and generating theory

Question 5

what is a chief advantage of qualitative field work?

Answer 5

it provides rich descriptions of social life, made in the natural settings in which life is lived.

super useful when examining how social processes play over time

Question 6

what are some social phenomenons that can be studied qualitatively

Answer 6

1. practices
2. episodes
3. encounters
4. roles
5. social and personal relationships
6. groups and cliques
7. organizations
8. settlements/habitats
9. subcultures/ lifestyles

Question 7

what are the 2 ways that a field researchers role varies with regard to level of participation

Answer 7

1. complete participant role: the people being observed do not know the researchers identity and purpose
   (behaves in a manner consistent with the group) -afraid behaviors might change if they know he is a researcher
2. complete observer tole: the researcher studies the social situation without becoming part of it (his role as researcher known to the public)
   - field researcher are caught in a dilemma between taking on the beliefs of the people being studied and objectivity

Question 8

field research paradigms are varied and include…

Answer 8

1. naturalism:
2. ethnography:
3. ethnomethodology:
4. grounded theory
5. case study approach
6. institutional ethnography

Question 9

field research paradigms are varied and include…

1. naturalism

Answer 9

1. naturalism: positivist view real social reality out there ready to be observed

Question 10

field research paradigms are varied and include…

2. ethnography

Answer 10

2. ethnography: naturalism that focuses on cultural descriptions

Question 11

field research paradigms are varied and include…

3. ethnomethodology

Answer 11

3. ethnomethodology: phenomenological approach assumes reality is a social construct and job of researcher to understand how we make sense of our world

Question 12

field research paradigms are varied and include…

4. grounded theory

Answer 12

4. combines positivism and naturalism in an attempt to develop theory

Question 13

field research paradigms are varied and include…

5. case study

Answer 13

5. focuses on a single case from either an ideographic or nomothetic perspective

Question 14

field research paradigms are varied and include…

6. institutional ethnography

Answer 14

6. look at social lives of the oppressed

Question 15

what are the seven steps of qualitative interviewing?

Answer 15

1. thematizing
2. designing
3. interviewing
4. transcribing
5. analyzing
6. verifying
7. reporting

Question 16

field notes should include what 2 things?

Answer 16

1. empirical observations

2. interpretations

Question 17

what are some examples of ethical questions that field researchers face?

Answer 17

• should permission of people being studied be obtained?

- what role should be adopted? (complete participant role or complete observer role)

Question 18

what is the chief advantage of field research?

Answer 18

its high validity.
-also it is naturalistic- carried out in a natural setting and flexible in how it allows the researcher to move form observation to analysis and inexpensive

Question 19

what is a chef disadvantage of field research?

Answer 19

low reliability. (a different field researcher might come to different conclusions. it cannot be used to describe the social life of large populations