Final Study Guide Q4 Flashcards
What is the difference between obtrusive and unobtrusive methods?
Whether an observer is obtrusive or unobtrusive refers to the extent to which the researcher blends into the background.
What is historical comparative analysis?
Looks at historical trajectory and what makes times different rises and falls and compares.
According to Skocpol, among the three logics of comparative history, the method of contrast of context is least associated with causal analysis. What are the other logics of comparative history?
1) parallel demonstration of theroy-similarities
2) contrasts of contexts-find different cases to show how they are unique
3) type-macro-causal-compare historical instances to come up with causal evidence or test theories
Which among them represent the same logic found in multivariate statistical analysis.
Parallel demonstration
Remember Mills and his methods?
John Stuart Mills. System of logic. Methods of agreement or disagreement to narrow down. (Cruise ship meal, who got sick who had what)
Of the qualitative methods, content analysis relies most heavily on recorded human communications. Who is Noam Chomsky and what was the example he used to demonstrate historical comparison and content analysis?
Propaganda model- East Timor and Portuguese colony. Made one out to be way worse than other. Ignored US involvement in sending weaponary.
Qualitative analysis involves a continual interplay between theory and analysis. What are examples of this ?
Grounded theorymainly evolves during the research process and is a product of continuous interplay between data analysis and data collection
Grounded theory rests on the constant comparative method. What is the analytic induction method?
a qualitative research strategy for developing and testing a theory in which the researcher tentatively defines a phenomenon, creates a hypothesis to explain it, and examines a single specific occurrence of the phenomenon in order to confirm or refute the hypothesis.
