Class 10 - Textbook Ch 17 - Qualitative Res. Principles

Question 1

Ethnography involves

Answer 1

naturalistic observations and holistic understandings of cultures or subcultures

Question 2

Grounded theory refers to

Answer 2

the attempt to derive theories from an analysis of the patterns, themes, and
common categories discovered among observational data.

Question 3

A case study is

Answer 3

an idiographic examination of a single individual, family, group, organization, com-
munity, or society. Can involve intensive interviews and client logs

Question 4

Snowball sampling is

Answer 4

when you ask one participant to recommend others to interview and ask each subsequent participant

Question 5

Six strategies for evaluating the rigor of qualita-

tive studies are

Answer 5

(1) prolonged engagement, (2) triangulation, (3) peer debriefi ng and support, (4) negative case analysis, (5) member checking, and (6) auditing.

Question 6

The contemporary positivist paradigm emphasizes
three key threats to the trustworthiness of qualitative
research (the three Rs):

Answer 6

reactivity, researcher biases, and respondent

biases.

Question 7

The social constructivist paradigm views trustworthiness and strategies to enhance rigor more in terms of capturing multiple subjective realities than of ensuring the portrayal of an objective social reality. Therefore

Answer 7

minimizing respondent bias is less important than making sure that the research participants’ multiple subjective realities are revealed as adequately as possible.