Exam 10: How Can Researchers Study the Patterns of Peoples Lives Participant Observation and Ethnography

What advice would you give a researcher about the best way to choose their site for a participant observation study?

The goal of triangulation, according to Denzin, is to secure an objective understanding of reality.

In the participant-as-observer role, the researcher is mainly an interviewer and observer and only participates minimally.

It is customary for the researcher to include themselves and their thoughts and feelings in the field notes.

What is an institutional ethnography? What are the aims of this type of research?

Which of the following is not an advantage qualitative interviewing compared to ethnography?

A data collection method that involves observation of people and participation in social settings is known as ________________.

Field research where the researcher conceals their status as a researcher and study aims from the people being studied is referred to as __________.

Geertz coined the term ____________ to describe the ethnographic practice of immersing oneself in a setting, participating in social life, and spending extended time with members of the group being observed.

What factors impact how active or passive a participant observer decides to be in the course of their study?

A study participant with specialized knowledge or insight to offer a researcher is known as a(n) ____________________.

Desmond thinks of ethnography "as a(n) _____________, a fundamental way of being in the world."

A ________________ is a person who shares expertise, knowledge, and authority with an ethnographer in a way that is integral to the success of the study.

Field notes are ______________________.

Most researchers use extensive hidden recording equipment to take field notes so that they do not distract from the interactions.

Doc in Street Corner Society is an example of the importance of a _______________.

How did Bettie (2014) maintain access in her research study of high school students? What are other methods that ethnographers use to maintain access?

In complete participant and complete observer roles, the people being observed are aware that they are part of a research study.

Which of the following should be included in an ethnographer's field notes?

A data collection method that involves the observation of people and participation in social settings is known as immersion.