Chapter 9 Pt. 1

Question 1

“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”?

Answer 1

qualitative methods

Question 2

3 research designs of qualitative methods?

Answer 2

(1) participant observation
(2) intensive interviewing
(3) focus groups

Question 3

“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 3

participant observation

Question 4

“open-ended, relatively unstructured questioning in which the interviewer seeks in-depth information on the interviewee’s feelings, experiences, and/or perceptions”?

Answer 4

intensive interviewing

Question 5

“unstructured group interviews in which the focus group leader actively encourages discussion among participants on the topics of interest”?

Answer 5

focus groups

Question 6

______ _______ combine elements of participant observation and intensive interviewing.

Answer 6

Focus groups

Question 7

Focus groups combine elements of __________ __________ and ________ __________.

Answer 7

participant observation

intensive interviewing

Question 8

How do focus groups increase the validity of attitude measurement?

Answer 8

by revealing what people say when presenting their opinions in group context

Question 9

All research designs of qualitative methods share several features:

(1)
(2) exploratory research questions, with a commitment to inductive reasoning
(3) a focus on previously unstudied processes and unanticipated phenomena
(4) an orientation to social context, to the interconnections between social phenomena rather than to their discrete features
(5) a focus on human subjectivity, on the meanings that participants attach to events and that other people give to participants’ lives
(6) a focus on events leading up to a particular event or outcome instead of general causal explanations
(7) reflexive research design and sensitivity to the subjective role of the researcher

Answer 9

(1) collection primarily of qualitative rather than quantitative data

Question 10

All research designs of qualitative methods share several features:

(1) collection primarily of qualitative rather than quantitative data
(2)
(3) a focus on previously unstudied processes and unanticipated phenomena
(4) an orientation to social context, to the interconnections between social phenomena rather than to their discrete features
(5) a focus on human subjectivity, on the meanings that participants attach to events and that other people give to participants’ lives
(6) a focus on events leading up to a particular event or outcome instead of general causal explanations
(7) reflexive research design and sensitivity to the subjective role of the researcher

Answer 10

(2) exploratory research questions, with a commitment to inductive reasoning

Question 11

All research designs of qualitative methods share several features:

(1) collection primarily of qualitative rather than quantitative data
(2) exploratory research questions, with a commitment to inductive reasoning
(3)
(4) an orientation to social context, to the interconnections between social phenomena rather than to their discrete features
(5) a focus on human subjectivity, on the meanings that participants attach to events and that other people give to participants’ lives
(6) a focus on events leading up to a particular event or outcome instead of general causal explanations
(7) reflexive research design and sensitivity to the subjective role of the researcher

Answer 11

(3) a focus on previously unstudied processes and unanticipated phenomena

Question 12

All research designs of qualitative methods share several features:

(1) collection primarily of qualitative rather than quantitative data
(2) exploratory research questions, with a commitment to inductive reasoning
(3) a focus on previously unstudied processes and unanticipated phenomena
(4)
(5) a focus on human subjectivity, on the meanings that participants attach to events and that other people give to participants’ lives
(6) a focus on events leading up to a particular event or outcome instead of general causal explanations
(7) reflexive research design and sensitivity to the subjective role of the researcher

Answer 12

(4) an orientation to social context, to the interconnections between social phenomena rather than to their discrete features

Question 13

All research designs of qualitative methods share several features:

(1) collection primarily of qualitative rather than quantitative data
(2) exploratory research questions, with a commitment to inductive reasoning
(3) a focus on previously unstudied processes and unanticipated phenomena
(4) an orientation to social context, to the interconnections between social phenomena rather than to their discrete features
(5)
(6) a focus on events leading up to a particular event or outcome instead of general causal explanations
(7) reflexive research design and sensitivity to the subjective role of the researcher

Answer 13

(5) a focus on human subjectivity, on the meanings that participants attach to events and that other people give to participants’ lives

Question 14

All research designs of qualitative methods share several features:

(1) collection primarily of qualitative rather than quantitative data
(2) exploratory research questions, with a commitment to inductive reasoning
(3) a focus on previously unstudied processes and unanticipated phenomena
(4) an orientation to social context, to the interconnections between social phenomena rather than to their discrete features
(5) a focus on human subjectivity, on the meanings that participants attach to events and that other people give to participants’ lives
(6)
(7) reflexive research design and sensitivity to the subjective role of the researcher

Answer 14

(6) a focus on events leading up to a particular event or outcome instead of general causal explanations

Question 15

All research designs of qualitative methods share several features:
(1) collection primarily of qualitative rather than quantitative data
(2) exploratory research questions, with a commitment to inductive reasoning
(3) a focus on previously unstudied processes and unanticipated phenomena
(4) an orientation to social context, to the interconnections between social phenomena rather than to their discrete features
(5) a focus on human subjectivity, on the meanings that participants attach to events and that other people give to participants’ lives
(6) a focus on events leading up to a particular event or outcome instead of general causal explanations
(7)

Answer 15

(7) reflexive research design and sensitivity to the subjective role of the researcher

Question 16

What is the process of qualitative research?

Answer 16

(1) researcher reflective on the setting and her relation to it and interpretations of it
(2) researcher describes the goals and means for the research
(3) sampling/collective
(4) describing the data
(5) organizing the data
(6) gathering and analyzing process
(7) connections
(8) interpretive process

Question 17

“research in which natural social processes are studied as they happen and left relatively undisturbed”?

Answer 17

field research

Question 18

“the study of a culture or cultures that some group of people shares, using participant observation over an extended period”?

Answer 18

ethnography

Question 19

Ethnography is also known as ___________

Answer 19

naturalistic

Question 20

“the use of ethnographic methods to study online communities”?

Answer 20

netnography

Question 21

Netnography is also known as _______________ or ________ __________

Answer 21

cyberethnography

virtual ethnography

Question 22

___________ is also known as cyberethnography or virtual ethnography

Answer 22

Netnography