Exam 9: Trust the Process: Analyzing Qualitative Data

Michel Foucault would argue that the way we talk about phenomena and define them is controlled by powerful components of society.

Assess which issue regarding research ethics is the most important when it comes to analyzing data.

A story in Western cultures has all of the following characteristics except ________.

Using examples from the text, argue for or against the following statement: "Using generic social processes in the analysis of your own work is fruitless."

Define "sensitizing concept." Using examples from the text as your main body of evidence, write a compelling argument for or against the following statement: "Sensitizing concepts are useful tools in research."

________ first articulated sensitizing concepts as "holding pens."

All of the following are ways that stories are dissected through narrative analysis except ________.

To find previously-identified sensitizing concepts that help the researcher understand the situation of her participants, she should ________.

The author of the textbook mentions how comments from friends and colleagues ("Widowers remarry too soon" and "They do not know how to cook or do housework") ultimately helped her frame her research question. This example demonstrates the importance of ________.

Choose either the story about the "money grabber" or the "challenge of the VCR" discussed in the analysis chapter of your textbook. Briefly outline the details of this story and identify what important concept it demonstrates.

Discovering sensitizing concepts in existing literature is so important to the qualitative process that every attempt should be made to utilize them in your own research.

In his study of interactions within a community of amateur chess players, Antony J. Puddephatt concluded that players had developed unique individualized approaches to the generic social process of performing activities.

Van den Hoonaard does her research from a symbolic interactionist perspective.

Define the concept of problematization in data analysis and use an example from this chapter to highlight how it may help to enhance a researcher's understanding.

Indigenous cultures have a more collective outlook than Western cultures on what it means to be a human being.

In her research on a group of religious refugees in Canada, van den Hoonaard says she problematized the issue of racism because ________.

Sensitizing concepts ________.

When it comes to analyzing your data, you should always begin with predetermined concepts, hypotheses, and a theoretical framework.

The textbook notes that Arlie R. Hochschild's work on flight attendants that developed the concept(s) of ________ was helpful in understanding widows' efforts to ________.

Outline what the author of the textbook learned through her use of narrative analysis as it relates to the stories widows told about their husbands' deaths.