Final Study Guide Q3 Flashcards
How does qualitative or field research differ from positivistic research?
Positivistic research is more data driven quantitative research.
What is the relationship of symbolic interaction with qualitative research?
Everyone talked to is an individual with their own basis.
Who is Graham Gibbs and what were the main points of his lecture on ethnography or participant observation?
Sociologist/anthropologist. Research methods study. Created a YouTube channel to teach.
Data collection technique that requires the researcher to be present at, involved in, and recording daily activities of people in field setting.
What were the major studies he reviewed?
James patrick-glasgow gang observed
William foote whyle-street corner society
Laud humphries-tearoom trade
Erving goffman-asylums
What is the difference between covert and overt participant observation?
Covert is secret-ethical issues
Overt is known-difficult. Need to gain access.
What is an “acceptable incompetent”?
a field role in which a researcher learns more about the setting by portraying himself or herself as being less knowledgeable than is truly the case
What is “going native”?
the tendency for some ethnographers to forget they are conducting research, to become fully fledged members of the community under study, and perhaps never ‘go home’.
What is a gatekeeper?
Those who control access to info, other individuals, and settings. May be a sponser.
What is a key informant?
The purpose of key informant interviews is to collect information from a wide range of people—including community leaders, professionals, or residents—who have first hand knowledge about the community.
What is the emic-etic dynamic?
emic, from within the social group (from the perspective of the subject) and etic, from outside (from the perspective of the observer).
Of the observer roles, the only one that potentially leaves a social situation unaffected by the researcher is the complete observer. What are other observer roles?
(1) nonparticipation, (2) passive participation, (3) moderate participation, (4) active participation, and (5) complete participation.
What is reactivity?
the phenomenon by which subjects tend to modify their behavior in virtue of their being studied upon
In the method of ethnomethodology, experiments are used to test hypotheses about the tenacity of the social order. What are these experiments called?
Breaching experiments
What are other the other major qualitative research methods?
ethnography, narrative, phenomenological, grounded theory, and case study
