Exam 2: Asking Questions and Identifying Goals

Dmitri is researching a northern community that does not conceive of what it means to be a person in this individualistic way. Rather, they see the self as connected to other human beings, to the land, ancestors and animals. The type of approach most in line with the community under study here is ________.

The textbook suggests that one of the biggest challenges for mixed-methods research is ________.

The sociological term verstehen ________.

On 17 October 2018, recreational marijuana use will officially become legal in Canada. Describe how research questions, researcher assumptions, and research design might differ for researchers studying recreational marijuana users in late 2018 versus 10-15 years ago. How might they be similar?

The best combination of the three central elements of the positivist tradition is ________.

Mixed-methods researchers often find it challenging to truly integrate the findings so that the qualitative research components do not disappear in the analysis.

Identifying a generic social process can help a researcher to expand the scope of her or his project to uncover hidden aspects of participants' collective experiences.

The author tells a story of how, during her research on retirement communities in Florida, she began by considering members of the board of the Homeowner's Association, but soon realized that the most productive group to interview would be the entertainment committee. This is an example of how the design of qualitative research is emergent.

Explain how the author's example of planning and taking a vacation demonstrates how qualitative and quantitative research differ with respect to flexibility.

The textbook author describes her trip to China and, more specifically, a tour she took to the Great Wall. According to her own assessment and supporting statements, this tour could best be characterized as ________ in nature and approach.

When a researcher no longer learns anything new in a research setting, she or he has reached a stage of ________.

In his research on how medical students they felt about patients, Howard S. Becker found that ________.

Outline the benefits of using a mixed-methods approach using the studies presented in the chapter.

The only important question asked in qualitative research is why people participate in certain social processes.

Pick either the example of "waitressing and women tippers" or "Icelandic baby talk" and briefly outline what critical concept the example demonstrates.

Trust in causal knowledge involves a belief that the world is made up of causes that can be influenced by individuals.

Maria is conducting research on a group of team of sledge hockey players. In her research report, Maria writes about her research participants' "different abilities," rather than referring to the participants as "handicapped." Maria refers to her participants this way because ________.

According to the textbook, "generic social processes" include all of the following except ________.

The textbook illustrates the concept of definition of the situation by referring to ________.

Distinguish between the objectives of quantitative and qualitative approaches to research.