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

The issue of voluntary participation is particularly a concern in observation studies.

According to your text, a researcher recruited participants in a study from a youth leadership organization and community center in Oakland. This researcher needed to make sure he had the trust and rapport of his participants and therefore was concerned with the difficult component in participant observation research of ______.

Dr. Williams conducted a qualitative study that would allow him to observe his participants in their own social world. His interest in observing them in their worlds is related to qualitative researchers' orientation to ______.

Which of the following is related to qualitative researcher's committment to inductive reasoning?

Saturation point is referring to setting a number of interviews you must do and deciding to end data collection once you have reached that number.

Which of the following is a qualitative research method that studies a culture or cultures that some group of people shares, using participant observation over an extended period?

Dr. Miller used made-up names when writing up her findings from the study. This was an effort to ensure confidentiality.

Identity disclosure is the same ethical issue as confidentiality.

One way that focus groups differ from traditional interviews is that they can allow for ______.

One set of researchers studying gang behavior with participant observation methods found out that they were lacking individuals or settings to examine a particular process of gang initation. When they realized they needed specific individuals in their study that could help them understand gang intitation more thoroughly, they decided to select new settings and individuals who they considered to be influential based on their earlier observations. These researchers engaged in ______.

With ______ sampling, field researchers learn from participants about who represents different subgroups in a setting and ______ sampling can be employed to ensure the representation of particular categories of participants.

Most interviewees ignore the fact that they are being tape-recorded.

Imagine you are a researcher that wanted to see if teen's encounters with school teachers, principals, coaches, peers, for example, shaped the meanings teens created about this themselves. In other words, your area of concern would be the school attended by the teen participants in your study. Since you would be focused on ______, you would most likely design a qualitative research project.

Qualitative methods have their greatest appeal when we need to explore new issues, investigate hard-to-study groups, or determine the meaning people give to their lives and actions. According to your text, this appeal is why qualitative methods focus on ______ processes.

The background work necessary for participant observers as they begin their study is related to ensuring a good impression when ______.