Chapter 1 pg. 9-26 pt. 2

Question 1

What is Feminist Research?

Answer 1

Research with a focus on women’s lives that often includes an orientation to personal experience, subjective orientations, the researcher’s standpoint, and emotions

Question 2

The _________ _________ includes the interpretivist and constructivist elements of concern with personal experience and subjective feelings with the researcher’s position and standpoint.

Answer 2

Feminist Research

Question 3

The Feminist Research includes the __________ and ___________ elements of concern with personal experience and subjective feelings with the researcher’s position and standpoint.

Answer 3

interpretivist

constructivist

Question 4

Interpretivist/Constructivist Research Guidelines:

(1)
(2) introduce the claims, concerns, and issues of each stakeholder group to the other stakeholder groups and ask for their reactions
(3) focus further information collection on claims, concerns, and issues about which there is disagreement among stakeholder groups
(4) negotiate with stakeholder groups about the information collected and attempt to reach consensus on the issues about which there is disagreement

Answer 4

(1) identify stakeholders and solicit their “claims, concerns, and issues”

Question 5

Interpretivist/Constructivist Research Guidelines:

(1) identify stakeholders and solicit their “claims, concerns, and issues”
(2)
(3) focus further information collection on claims, concerns, and issues about which there is disagreement among stakeholder groups
(4) negotiate with stakeholder groups about the information collected and attempt to reach consensus on the issues about which there is disagreement

Answer 5

(2) introduce the claims, concerns, and issues of each stakeholder group to the other stakeholder groups and ask for their reactions

Question 6

Interpretivist/Constructivist Research Guidelines:

(1) identify stakeholders and solicit their “claims, concerns, and issues”
(2) introduce the claims, concerns, and issues of each stakeholder group to the other stakeholder groups and ask for their reactions
(3)
(4) negotiate with stakeholder groups about the information collected and attempt to reach consensus on the issues about which there is disagreement

Answer 6

(3) focus further information collection on claims, concerns, and issues about which there is disagreement among stakeholder groups

Question 7

Interpretivist/Constructivist Research Guidelines:
(1) identify stakeholders and solicit their “claims, concerns, and issues”
(2) introduce the claims, concerns, and issues of each stakeholder group to the other stakeholder groups and ask for their reactions
(3) focus further information collection on claims, concerns, and issues about which there is disagreement among stakeholder groups
(4)

Answer 7

(4) negotiate with stakeholder groups about the information collected and attempt to reach consensus on the issues about which there is disagreement

Question 8

What is the goal of interpretivist research?

Answer 8

to creating change

Question 9

What is Participatory Action Research (PAR)?

Answer 9

a type of research in which the researcher involves some organizational members as active participants throughout the process of studying an organization; the goal is making changes in the organization

Question 10

What is the difference between Quantitative and Qualitative Methods?

Answer 10

quantitative methods- methods such as surveys and experiments that record variation in social life in terms of categories that vary in amount. Data that are treated as quantitative are either numbers or attributes that can be ordered in terms of magnitude

qualitative exploratory methods- these methods typically involve exploratory research questions, inductive reasoning, an orientation to social context and human subjectivity, and the meanings attached by participants to events and to their lives

Question 11

Is this Quantitative or Qualitative methods:
designed to capture the social reality of the participants as they experienced it, in their own words rather than in predetermined categories

Answer 11

quantitative methods

Question 12

Is this Quantitative or Qualitative methods:

are mostly written or spoken words or observations that don’t have a direct numerical interpretation

Answer 12

qualitative exploratory methods

Question 13

Is this Quantitative or Qualitative methods:

exploration is the most common motive for using qualitative methods

Answer 13

qualitative exploratory methods

Question 14

Is this Quantitative or Qualitative methods:

emphasize the goal of developing an “authentic” understanding of a social process or social setting

Answer 14

qualitative exploratory methods

Question 15

qualitative can be converted to ___________

Answer 15

quantitative

Question 16

What is mixed methods research?

Answer 16

research that combines qualitative and quantitative methods in an investigation of the same or related research question(s)

Question 17

What is triangulation?

Answer 17

the use of multiple methods to study one research question. Also used to mean the use of 2 or more different measures of the same variable

Question 18

Which research method is this:
an approach in which the researcher assigns individuals to 2 or more groups in a way that equates the characteristics of individuals in the groups (with a certain chance of error), except for variation in the groups’ exposure to the independent variable

Answer 18

experimental approach

Question 19

Which research method is this:

popular and versatile research instruments using a question format

Answer 19

surveys

Question 20

Which research method is this:

the instrument containing the questions of a self-administered survey

Answer 20

questionnaire

Question 21

Which research method is this:
a type of field research in which a researcher develops a sustained and intensive relationship with people while they go about their normal activities

Answer 21

participant observation

Question 22

Which research method is this:
open-ended, relatively unstructured questioning in which the interviewer seeks in-depth information on the interviewee’s feelings, experiences, and/or perceptions

Answer 22

intensive interviewing

Question 23

Which research method is this:

analysis of data collected by someone other than the researcher or the researcher’s assistant

Answer 23

secondary data analysis

Question 24

Which research method is this:

research in which social events of only one time period in the past are studied

Answer 24

historical events research

Question 25

Which research method is this:

a research method for systemically analyzing and making inferences from text

Answer 25

content analysis

Question 26

Which research method is this:
geographical mapping strategies used to visualize a number of things, including location, distance, and patterns of crime and their correlates

Answer 26

crime mapping

Question 27

What are the different ways to enact surveys?

Answer 27

can either be self-administered or read by an interviewer