Exam 5: How Can Researchers Understand Meaning, Process, and Experience in the Social World Qualitative Research

Step 5 of the research process involves collecting further data. This is best explained by which of the following?

______________ is a way of understanding social life as the product of interactions between people.

An ethnographer spending extensive time in the field in contact with the research participants is best an example of which attribute? Emergence of Qualitative Approach

A key finding from Lareau's work was ______________________.

Lofland and Lofland coined the phrase "___________", which means imagining yourself in others' situations.

What was the setting of Jenkin's 2019 study?

Because of its' subjectivity, it is not possible to generalize findings from qualitative research.

In her research, Buday found that grassroots anti-fracking activists aligned with who in order to urge a ban on fracking?

Qualitative methods were greatly influenced by sociologists at the University of Chicago in the 1920s and 1930s.

Which qualitative method did Peek use for her study of Muslim Americans after 9/11?

Which of the following was a new finding from Lareau's analysis of the PSID-CDS data?

Which represents an unexpected finding in Jenkins' work?

One feature of qualitative research is its deductive approach to understanding the social world.

What dataset did Lareau and her collaborators use to further study the patterns found in her ethnographic research?

Weiss' 2005 research found that retirement is generally understood as a discrete moment in time for retirees.

This chapter introduced you to a variety of qualitative methods. Which two methods are you most interested in? What research topic that you're interested in would be best suited for these methods? Explain.

_________ is the ability to make inferences about a population using sample data.

Qualitative research attempts to minimize the use of artificial methods and other disturbances to the social world being studied.

In qualitative research, it is not possible to share too much detailed description of the context being studied.

Compare the results of Schuman et al's (1997) findings about racial attitudes with what Bonilla-Silva found. What accounts for the differences?