Ch. 10 Qualitative Analysis through Case Studies

Question 1

Categories

Answer 1

groupings of codes around a particular idea

Question 2

Codes (In qualitative analysis)

Answer 2

particular words or phrases in a qualitative text

Question 3

Content analysis

Answer 3

the analysis of nonnumeric text in a systematic way that allows a researcher to provide a description and analysis of what is contained in a qualitative dataset

Question 4

Direct observation

Answer 4

a form of observation in which a researcher witnesses a process from the side

Question 5

External validity

Answer 5

how generalizable a case study’s findings are to other cases

Question 6

field research

Answer 6

a method of data collection in which a researcher leaves the workplace to gather data

Question 7

focus group discussion

Answer 7

a discussion a researcher conducts with several people at the same time to obtain info about a research topic

Question 8

hypothesis-testing case study

Answer 8

a case study used to test a hypothesis that has been derived from a theory

Question 9

hypothesis generating case study

Answer 9

a case study used to generate hypotheses that could be tested d in other contexts

Question 10

idiographic case study

Answer 10

a case study is used to provide a thorough description, interpretation, or understanding of a case that a researcher identifies as important or interesting for analysis

Question 11

Illustrative case

Answer 11

a type of probability probe that provides a concrete example of how a theory operates in practices

Question 12

Inductive theory

Answer 12

theory that is crated when researchers study empirical information and discover alternative explanations that better explain particular outcome as opposed to the explanations that were originally proposed

Question 13

Interview

Answer 13

a meeting between a researcher and participant that allows the researcher to obtain firsthand information about a research topic

Question 14

interview schedule

Answer 14

a list of all the questions a researcher plans to ask a respondent

Question 15

Observation

Answer 15

allows researchers to collect data by watching a political process in real time to report on it

Question 16

participant observation

Answer 16

a form of observation in which a researcher participates in the process under study

Question 17

plausibility probes

Answer 17

preliminary studies used to demonstrate how a theory may be applied to different cases

Question 18

primary sources

Answer 18

original documents created during a particular event

Question 19

process tracing

Answer 19

a qualitative method that allows a researcher to create an analysis of how an outcome occurred by developing a precise timeline and analysis of how an outcome occurred by developing a precise timeline and casual argument to carefully explain how one factor may have cause another

Question 20

saturation point

Answer 20

the point in a research program when the collection of additional information becomes redundant

Question 21

secondary sources

Answer 21

documents that involve an analysis, commentary, or interpretation of something that has already happened

Question 22

Semistructured interviews

Answer 22

interviews in which a researcher begins with a formal interview schedule and asks specific questions in a particular order during the course of the interview, but then allows the conversation to deviate from the original questions when appropriate

Question 23

Structured interviews

Answer 23

interviews that are generally used for quantitative analysis, with closed-ended questions that are easily coded into quantitative level data

Question 24

Themes

Answer 24

relationships between codes and categories that produce a general idea

Question 25

triangulation

Answer 25

the process through which multiple sources are used to answer a research question

Question 26

Unstructured interviews

Answer 26

interviews in which a researcher asks open-ended questions that allow a respondent to guide most of the conversation