Qualitative Research Methods
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Qualitative Research Methods provides an in-depth exploration of various non-numerical approaches to scientific inquiry, focusing on the collection and analysis of rich, descriptive data. The course examines key methodologies such as interviews, focus groups, participant observation, case studies, and content analysis. Students learn how to design qualitative research projects, develop research questions, employ ethical considerations, and apply appropriate data collection and analysis techniques. Emphasis is placed on interpreting meanings, identifying patterns, and understanding participant perspectives within social, cultural, and contextual settings, preparing students to conduct rigorous and reflective qualitative research.
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Qualitative Research Methods for the Social Sciences 8th Edition by Bruce L. Berg
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) What type of concept does quantitative research measure?
A) Definition
B) Characteristic
C) Number
D) Essence
Answer: C
Q2) When observing from three known points of view, the area where all three lines of sight intersect is called the ________.
A) multiple operationalism
B) convergent validation
C) line of action
D) triangle of error
Answer: D
Q3) The researcher who coined the term symbolic interaction is _________.
A) Dewey
B) Coole
C) Blumer
D) Parks
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Designing Qualitative Research
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Q1) A sampling technique that allows researchers with special expertise about a group to select subjects who represent the population is ____________.
A) accidental sampling
B) judgmental sampling
C) chain referral sampling
D) quota sampling
Answer: B
Q2) What are some criteria you can use to help establish a Web site as valid?
Answer: Examine whose Web site it is and what's in the URL (Uniform Resource Locator). Personal Web sites should be used with caution. Look at the nature of the domain. An official government Web site is more credible than a private or special purpose group Web site. Check to see if the material is current or dated. If the links are expired and the content is old, it may not be valid for your research. Consult other resources to determine if the information found on the Web site can be corroborated. If it is not supported by any other source, it is not reliable.
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Chapter 3: Ethical Issues
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Q1) What are several ways a researcher could increase success of debriefing for studies conducted over the Internet?
Answer: In Internet research, the researcher lacks the face-to-face connection that allows him/her to see when a subject is becoming upset or agitated. As such, debriefing subjects to mitigate harmful effects becomes more important. However, over the Internet, it is difficult to tell when a technical difficulty or boredom can separate the participant from the study at any point. To improve success debriefing, the researcher can obtain the respondent's e-mail address at the beginning of the study to e-mail a debriefing, or include a prominently displayed link on all pages that automatically links to a debriefing page when clicked. The researcher can also provide his/her e-mail address at the beginning of the study for questions and concerns, or direct respondents to a chat room for live debriefing after the close of the study.
Q2) Social scientists have an ethical obligation to the population they study because
A) they study human subjects
B) they use quantitative data collection methods
C) they have no influence on policy and law
D) they have no risk of inflicting physical or emotional harm to subjects
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: A Dramaturgical Look at Interviewing
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Q1) Zero-order level communications is an interviewing technique to ensure good communication that _____________.
A) uses jargon as an opportunity to explore the respondent's meaning system
B) uses varying levels of language in questions
C) simplifies interview questions to the least sophisticated level of all respondents
D) uses language codes to share idioms
Q2) What are several ways to begin data analysis?
Q3) Describe the advantages and disadvantages inherent in telephone interviewing.
Q4) Using real-time chat rooms or instant messenger to conduct an interview over the Web that allows back-and-forth between respondent and interviewer is an example of
A) Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI)
B) Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI)
C) synchronous environments
D) asynchronous environments
Q5) How can a novice interviewer begin to establish an interviewer repertoire?
Q6) What steps should an interviewer take when preparing guidelines for the interview to be ready for the interviewing experience?
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Chapter 5: Focus Group Interviewing
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Q1) A phenomenon that allows a larger number of ideas, issues, and solutions to a problem to be generated through group discussion than through individual conversations is one reason that focus groups are so compelling. What is this called?
A) collective brainstorm
B) moderation
C) synergistic group effect
D) group think
Q2) What population is NOT especially well suited for focus group interviewing?
A) Jurors
B) Bullies
C) Marketing groups
D) Transient populations
Q3) Explain the parts of data and how researchers should analyze the raw data created by a focus group.
Q4) What are the five main parts of a moderator's guide? Pick one and describe what it should include in detail.
Q5) What are some advantages of focus group interviewing?
Q6) What is a focus group and what are its appropriate uses?
Q7) Compare and contrast focus group interviewing and face-to-face interviewing.
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Chapter 6: Ethnographic Field Strategies
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Q1) A researcher who enters a setting for study because it is available and convenient to study is exhibiting _____________.
A) subjective motivation
B) external motivation
C) critical ethnography
D) positivism
Q2) A practice placing researchers in the midst of whatever it is they study where they can examine various phenomena as perceived by participants and represent these observations as accounts is called _____________.
A) street ethnography
B) organizational ethnography
C) medical ethnography
D) ethnography
Q3) Field research on the cultural dimensions of organizations is called ____________.
A) street ethnography
B) organizational ethnography
C) medical ethnography
D) ethnography
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Chapter 7: Action Research
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Q1) The phase of photo research in which the researcher looks for common themes and theories that emerge during the contextualizing and discussion of the photographs, in which participants may flag certain issues to target for action is called
A) selecting photographs
B) contextualizing stories
C) codifying
D) capturing photographs
Q2) Create an example of a research question and population to which the principles of action research are applicable. Provide justification for your research design.
Q3) The phase of photo research in which the researcher discusses the reasons why the participant took the photo, what the image means, and what the images are supposed to depict. This is the phase in which the photographer provides his or her voice to the researcher. This is called _______.
A) selecting photographs
B) contextualizing stories
C) codifying
D) capturing photographs
Q4) Explain the three phases of photovoice, and what each involves.
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Chapter 8: Unobtrusive Measures in Research
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Q1) A type of record in which the author portrays a fragmented picture of life, and is interesting because of the nature of the topics discussed rather than the identity of the author is called ______.
A) private archives
B) comprehensive autobiography
C) edited autobiography
D) topical autobiography
Q2) Define commercial media accounts, and give an example of how they can be used as an unobtrusive data source.
Q3) The private archival material that can be criticized for removing evidence of the text's author through writing and other practices, but contains information on the social contours of a given time, ideological orientations of a group, or self-reflections about one's activities is the ___________.
A) letter
B) diary
C) autobiography
D) blog
Q4) Define unobtrusive research, and explain how it works.
Q5) What are the three types of autobiographies, and how are they used?
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Chapter 9: Social Historical Research and Oral Traditions
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Q1) Which kind of source is a photograph taken as a direct outcome of experiencing an event firsthand?
A) Primary
B) Secondary
C) Tertiary
D) Quaternary
Q2) A Web site run by a nonprofit company that seeks to identify and archive billions of Web pages to help researchers seek historical information on a variety of topics and areas is called ___________.
A) Internet Archive
B) Slave Narratives from the Federal Writer's Project
C) What Did You Do in the War, Grandma?
D) Hogan Jazz Archive
Q3) Which term can be considered a synonym for internal criticism?
A) Genuine
B) Reliable
C) Legitimate
D) Valid
Q4) Define the three types of data sources that historical researchers can use.
Q5) What are the steps required in creating historiography?
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Chapter 10: Case Studies
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Q1) What are several reasons that a case study to generate theory or a theory after research model can be useful?
Q2) A case study requires a deep and full examination of the case through ___________.
A) only primary sources
B) multiple methods and/or sources
C) deep detailed interviewing
D) only secondary and tertiary sources
Q3) Which type of case study investigates multiple research entities for the purpose of cross-unit comparison?
A) Snapshot case study
B) Longitudinal case study
C) Pre-post case study
D) Comparative case study
Q4) What is a community case study, and how does it work?
Q5) What are the steps involved in creation of grounded theory during case study research?
Q6) What are several reasons that a theory-before-research model can be useful when conducting case studies?
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Chapter 11: An Introduction to Content Analysis
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Q1) Which content analysis technique involves coding categories derived from the raw data itself, in order to generate theories, or theoretically connected explanations the document under analysis?
A) Directed content analysis
B) Summative content analysis
C) Conventional content analysis
D) Narrative content analysis
Q2) Which term describes the actual terms used by individuals under investigation that represent their behavioral processes?
A) Ideological stances
B) Sociological constructs
C) In vivo codes
D) Communication themes
Q3) When a researcher is trying to explain the latent symbolic meaning found in research, what corroborative techniques can he/she use to strengthen the argument?
Q4) Explain the four guidelines to open coding.
Q5) Compare narrative and nonnarrative content analysis approaches.
Q6) What are the advantages and disadvantages of content analysis?
Q7) How does negative case testing work?
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Chapter 12: Writing Research Papers: Sorting the Noodles from the
Soup
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Q1) Which writing pitfall occurs when writers pose an inquiry as a transition, which they plan to immediately answer in the text?
A) Lazy word beginnings
B) Similar word confusions
C) Rhetorical questions
D) Improper emphasis
Q2) Which part of a methodology section explains the way information was collected (e.g., interviews, focus groups, etc.), and how it was collected so another researcher can potentially replicate the method?
A) Analysis techniques
B) Subjects
C) Data
D) Setting
Q3) A good abstract will summarize one's findings and highlight important areas of research. What are the main components that should be included?
Q4) What is the difference between a report and a peer-reviewed article?
Q5) What are the outlets available for social scientists to disseminate their research?
Q6) What value does rewriting have in research?
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