Exam 9: Qualitative Methods: Observing, Participating, and Listening

Which of the following is an example of a focus group?

Which of the following is related to the ethical issue in qualitative research methods of appropriate boundaries?

Dr. Addall wanted to focus his research on categories predetermined by the researcher, whereas Dr. Reidel wanted to focus his research on observations of natural phenonmena. Dr. Addall would therefore have different priorities than Dr. Reidel. Which of the following would NOT be a priority of Dr. Addall?

Having an interpretive process for data analysis allows for an emergence of a written account that represents what has been done and how the data have been interpreted. This process is associated with the notion of ______ typically found in qualitative research methods.

Intensive interviewers must plan their main questions around an outline of the interview topic.

Experience sampling method (ESM) can be used when field studies do not require ongoing, intensive involvement by researchers in the setting.

According to your textbook, which of the following is NOT a way that focus groups are used?

Participant observation is actually called fieldwork in anthropology.

Focus groups do not provide generalizable results.

Your book discusses that sometimes participant observation and intensive interviewing can be used in combination with one another. First describe one benefit of using mixed methods. Second, using the example of police-community relations, describe at least two ways that using observations and intensive interviewers together could be useful to uncover detailed information about police-community relations.

A researcher is interested in why youth commit crime. This researcher is not interested in the sequence of events that might lead up to why a young person would engage in crime. This is because there is a difference in qualitative and quantitative research methods focus on ______.

Explain what it means for qualitative methods to be utilize a reflexive research design and be sensitive to the subjective role of the researcher. How is this different from quantitative methods?

Jottings serve as memory joggers when taking notes in the field.

A qualitative researcher was particularly interested in how gender affected the attitudes and behavior of community-police liaisons or neighborhood police officers and wanted to see the influence of gender as it happened, without disrupting the participants. As such, this research announced that she was a researcher to her participants and took the participant observation role of ______.

Which of the following situations would be most appropriate to use a follow-up question during an interview?

Unlike experimental methods, participant observation researchers are focused on studying phenomenon that occurs naturally in the field and therefore are trying to uphold the principle of ______.

What is the main discipline traditionally associated with ethnographic research methods?

Identify at least three circumstances that make qualitative methods most useful.

In which discipline did focus groups originate?

Qualitative research typically focuses on events leading up to a particular event or outcome instead of general causal explanations.