CH 3 : Research Methodology (QUESTIONS)

Question 1

How does Sociological research differ from natural science research?

Answer 1

• Although research can be deductive, moving from hypothesis to observation, it can also be inductive.
• Does not require falsifiability.
• Difficult to determine causality.

Question 2

What does IK stress?

Answer 2

IK stresses that researchers do not own knowledge; knowledge has spirit.

Question 3

What does IK acknowledge research as?

Answer 3

A ceremony ; An act of reconciliation

Question 4

Common qualitative methods (4)

Answer 4

• Interviews
• Focus groups
• Ethnography & participant observation
• Content analysis

Question 5

What does the researcher as a “story-catcher” promote?

Answer 5

1. Valuing the emotional and spiritual aspects of stories
2. Letting participants tell their own stories (through structured, or relatively unstructured exploration of ideas such as those in talking circles; )

Question 6

Quantitative approaches (4)

Answer 6

• Controlled experiments
• Surveys
• Content analysis

Question 7

What must researchers show?

Answer 7

Academic honesty