Exam 13: Qualitative Data Analysis

Professor Cay notes that respondent Mary Ginger is a 54-year-old grandmother who has two grandchildren living in her household.Neither of the grandchildren's parents live with them although Mary is the maternal grandmother.Cay also learns that Ginger had to quit her job in order to stay home with the young grandchildren because Ginger feared leaving the two youngsters with a baby-sitter or in child care.Two of Ginger's friends were dealing with similar situations and a third friend was considering whether to obtain custody of her grandchild.Thus,Cay learned that Ginger wasn't feeling "alone" in caring for her grandchildren.Using this information alone,it sounds like Professor Cay is doing:

Which of the following is NOT a fundamental assumption of conversation analysis?

The best advice for writing memos is that:

Mikhael is examining the symbolic elements of a standard police encounter,such as the behaviors and clues an officer encounters that could signify danger.What sort of qualitative research is he performing?

Jeremy was born in 1948 and grew up during the 1960s.He was sent to Vietnam in 1967.In Vietnam he was horrified by what he saw,and when he returned home he suffered sleepless nights and nightmares.He began to work at a bank but often fell asleep during the day.He met Mary,another bank employee,in 1980 and they got married in 1981.They got divorced in 1983 as Mary could not keep up with Jeremy's nightmares,bouts of depression,and bouts with alcohol.After the divorce,Jeremy's depression increased which lead to the increase of his alcohol consumption.He was fired from his job later in 1983.An explanation for Jeremy's job loss could be termed as:

Which of the following is NOT true for a qualitative researcher?

It is as important to identify the standardized unit for coding in qualitative analysis as it is in quantitative analysis.

Qualitative research is undertaken for descriptive purposes never for explanatory purposes.

Which of the following statements is (are)FALSE regarding semiotic analysis?

Which of the following is NOT one of the four stages of the constant comparative method?

What is conversation analysis? What are the assumptions underlying conversation analysis.Give an example of a practical use for this type of analysis.

Which of the following statements is most appropriate when discussing the grounded theory method?

A node is an established code in terms of NVivo.

Code notes are used to:

The search for the intentional or unintentional meanings attached to signs is called semiotics.

Professor Dahl was using NVivo for an analysis of relationships.Dahl created a node called "friendship" and then created a node called "same-sex" and another node called opposite-sex" under "friendship." Dahl was creating:

Compare and contrast the three major forms of qualitative data coding.

Which of the following statements is (are)TRUE?

Axial coding aims at: