Final Exam Flashcards
Name three things that make a topic appropriate for field research.
- Attitudes and behaviors that are best understood in a natural setting
- Social processes over time
- When the purpose of research is to capture the richly detailed picture of real life
What is reactivity? How can this be solved?
The problem is that the subjects of social research alter their behavior when knowing they are being observed. The problem of reactivity can be solved by spending a long period of time with the subjects, until they are willing to involve you in their lives.
What is the difference between emic and etic perspectives?
EMIC: Takes on the point of those being studies, when the researcher takes on the insiders’ viewpoint
ETIC: Maintains a distance from the insiders’ point of view purpose is to achieve more objectivity
What is a weakness of field research?
Cannot generalize findings to large population
___________ studies the ways people make sense of the world (to identify the methods through which understanding occurs)
Aims to understand how social order is formed and maintained
Ethnomethodology
Who is the scholar behind ethnomethodology?
Garfinkel
Using ethnography, __________ is based on the assumption that an objective social reality exists and can be observed and reported accurately.
Naturalism
__________ is an inductive approach to the study of social life that attempts to generate a theory from the constant comparing of unfolding observations, by Glaser and Strauss
Grounded theory
What are some guidelines for using grounded theory?
o Think comparatively o Obtain multiple viewpoints o Periodically step back, think about the patterns o Maintain an attitude of skepticism o Follow the research procedures
True or false: case studies can be both be descriptive or explanatory
True
Who created extended case method?
Burawoy
Using _________, we aim to improve existing theories.
Extended case study
Who was the leading scholar behind institutional ethnography?
Dorothy Smith
_____________’s purpose is to uncover the institutional power relations that structure and govern those relationships
Institutional ethnography
What is the major strength of institutional ethnography?
This approach links the “micro-level” of everyday personal experiences w/ the “macro-level” of institutions. —> starting with observing and understanding individuals’ experiences, with the attempt to discover what power relations shape these experiences
What is participatory action research?
A research approach that the respondents control over the purpose and procedures of the research
There is NO distinction between the researcher and the researched
Rubin and Rubin argue that Qualitative interview is the ____ of hearing data
art
What is the difference between qualitative interview in a field research setting and qualitative interview in a one-on-one setting?
- Qualitative interview in field research (less structured, more difficult to record)
- Qualitative interview in one-on-one encounter (can be more structured, easier to record)
When the researcher takes on the insiders’ viewpoint it is called…
Emic
When the researcher maintains a distance from the insiders’ point of view purpose is to achieve more objectivity it is called…
Etic
Field research has high _______ and low ______
Field research =
high validity
low reliability
What paradigm is ethnography based on?
Naturalism
T/F: when using PAR, there is NO distinction between the researcher and the researched
True
