Chapter 4: Introduction to Qualitative Research

Question 1

What is the value structure of a person

Answer 1

Axiology

Question 2

What is the communication of a researchers characteristics related to the study topic such as the researchers social status gender age, personal experiences and political party

Answer 2

Positioning

Question 3

What is a researchers self awareness, understanding and acknowledgement of their personal biases and their influence on the topic and their personal biases and their influence on the topic and the participants.

Answer 3

Reflexivity

Question 4

What is the study of the nature of being and existence and addresses questions such as what does it mean to exist and what is real

Answer 4

Ontology

Question 5

What is the study of knowledge or how it is produced

Answer 5

Epistemology

Question 6

What is the philosophical perspective consistent with different multiple subjective views of reality

Answer 6

Constructivism

Question 7

What is the philosophy that supports different multiple subjective views of experiences that are co-constructed with others

Answer 7

Social construcitivism

Question 8

Is a worldview for the research who is seeking to find a solution for the problem

Answer 8

Pragmatism

Question 9

What is the extent to which a study was implemented consistently with the standard accepted by scientists

Answer 9

Rigor

Question 10

What type of research describes the essence of experiences from the participants perspective or as frequently stated capture the lived experience

Answer 10

Phenomenological research

Question 11

What is an experience of an individual or multiple individuals who have a similar experience

Answer 11

Phenomenon

Question 12

What is defined as the blank tablet that a researcher attempts to create by suspending our automatic and deep seated belief in the mind-independent existence of reality

Answer 12

Epoche

Question 13

What is setting asides one belief during qualitative research

Answer 13

Bracketing

Question 14

What is articulating what is the phenomenon and what is not the phenomenon

Answer 14

Essence

Question 15

What is removing the influence of your pre-understanding of the experience and focusing on the lived experiences of the participant

Answer 15

Reduction

Question 16

What is the objective and subjective aspects of the situation are merged in the participants mind

Answer 16

Embodiment

Question 17

What is the possibilities and limitations created by one’s position in history social and geographical locations and personal characteristics such as income and education

Answer 17

Situated freedom

Question 18

What is defined as the interaction between persons subjectively encountering the objective world around them

Answer 18

Intersubjectivity

Question 19

What type of research emphasize the importance of language and written texts

Answer 19

Hermeneutic phenomenological research

Question 20

What type of research is an inductive research technique which is grounded in the concrete world as experienced by participants and can be linked to actual data

Answer 20

Grounded theory research

Question 21

What type of research explores how your perceptions of your interactions with other shape your view of self

Answer 21

Symbolic interaction theory

Question 22

What is the variation that focuses on nonhuman aspects of an experience such as built environments, plants animals an technology

Answer 22

Situational analysis

Question 23

What research provides for studying cultures

Answer 23

Ethnographical Research

Question 24

What is the insiders point of view known as regarding ethnographies

Answer 24

Emic perspective

Question 25

What is the outsiders point of view known as regarding ethnographies

Answer 25

Etic perspective

Question 26

A culture that has to be understood on its own terms is called

Answer 26

Cultural relativism

Question 27

Which type of ethnography aims to describe a foreign culture through immersion in the culture for an extended period

Answer 27

Classical ethnography

Question 28

What is the type of ethnography that explores and describes the structures of specific groups institutions, organizations and patterns of social interaction

Answer 28

Systematic ethnography

Question 29

What is the type of ethnography that has the goal of understanding the values and thinking that result in behaviours and symbols of the values and thinking that result in behaviours and symbols of the people being studied

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Interpretive ethnography

Question 30

What is the type of ethnography that has a political purpose of increasing the awareness of imbalances of power

Answer 30

Critical ethnography

Question 31

What type of research values the unique perspectives of groups of people within their cultural context that is influenced at the macro level by geographical location, political system and social structures.

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Ethnonursing research

Question 32

What are studies without an identified qualitative method

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Exploratory-descriptive qualitative research

Question 33

What type of study focuses on the stories of the participants as told through our collaboration with a story listener

Answer 33

Narrative inquiry