Exam 2: Interviewing

You are beginning your analysis of your interviews with engaged couples about their relationships with their soon-to-be parents-in-law. Your participants use the terms "monster-in-law," "meddlesome," and "mama's boy." These are ______.

When conducting semi-structured interviews, you should try to ______.

You are working for the local Boys' and Girls' Club. You are conducting research for them on the ways in which the parents of the children at the center struggle with parenting. The BGC's idea is that they would like to expand their services to parents but need to first determine where the greatest area of need is. Which sampling method would you most likely choose for this research?

Which of the following is NOT a type of nonprobability sampling?

Apart from providing the informed consent, you must do several things to protect the identities of your participants. Describe how you would go about keeping anyone else from discovering their identities.

Describe six things you would do in order to protect participants who have volunteered for your interview research.

In conducting interview research, one of your participants expresses some sexist sentiments. As the researcher, you should ______.

From an interpretivist perspective, objectivity means ______.

Describe the difference between patterns of frequency and patterns of magnitude.

If you use interpretivist methodology, you will try to gather ______.

Which of the following is the best way to end an interview?

Describe what you would do during each of the three stages (open coding, axial coding, selective coding) of data analysis in interview research.

You are interviewing women who work in executive positions in Fortune 500 companies. One of your participants says that they have never experienced any gender prejudice from any of their coworkers in this or any other job. Familiar with the sociological research on gender relations in high-level corporate workplaces, you have a hard time believing this. What is the most appropriate way for you to respond?

Interview research largely grew out of ______ theory.

Which of the following is an appropriate topic for interview research?

By what criteria should interview research be judged?

Which of the following is true regarding the informed consent statement?

The purpose of interview sampling is to ______.

You work for the California State University Research Foundation and are beginning a project to better understand how/why victims of natural disasters choose to access relief services or not. Though the state and federal government offer many types of assistance to disaster victims, your literature review revealed that these services are vastly underutilized. You would like to better understand this phenomenon and how disaster victims perceive their access (or lack thereof) to disaster relief services in California. You decide to use qualitative interviews as your research method. What is your research question?

The evaluation of the quality of interview research is based on the validity of the data and the analysis. Explain what each of these means in this case of interviews.