unit 3

Question 1

applied research

Answer 1

research designed to produce results that are immediately useful in relation to some real world situation

Question 2

basic research

Answer 2

research aimed at gaining fundamental knowledge about seam issue

Question 3

coding

Answer 3

Applying descriptive labels to sections of text or images so they can be classified into categories or themes.

Question 4

content analysis

Answer 4

When researchers use texts and systematically categorize elements of those texts on the basis of a set of rules.

Question 5

empirical

Answer 5

statements that could hypothetically be proved true or false

Question 6

ethnography

Answer 6

Research that systematically studies how groups of people live and make meaning by understanding the group from its own point of view.

Question 7

normative

Answer 7

commonly accepted as appropriate

Question 8

participant-observation

Answer 8

Observing action and interaction while participating as part of the social context being studied.