Exam 14: Nonreactive Qualitative Research

Which of the following statements best describes the difference between qualitative content analysis and quantitative content analysis?

Professor Regina Aniger is in an archive,gathering evidence on a group of elite male politicians and governors in the 1770s for a book she is writing on how political conflict shaped the West.She discovers that all the existing evidence and documents about them ignore the roles of commoners.What does this missing information refer to?

In culture A,teachers' primary role is to provide intellectual training for a fee.In culture B,teachers are community members who provide informal instruction to young persons,especially with regards to moral matters.However,when writing a book on teachers,Emit Elliot claims teachers in culture B perform the same function as teachers in culture A.What mistake is Emit making?

Define the following terms -oral history

What are some problems that the historical researcher confronts when dealing with narrative history (accounts of the past written by historians)?

Which approach to qualitative content analysis identified by Hsiu-Fang and Shannon (2005)most closely resembles quantitative content analysis?

Define the following terms -equivalence

Define the following terms -historiography

Define the following terms -internal criticism

Describe the main feature that quantitative content analysis and qualitative content analysis have in common with each other.What are the key differences between quantitative content analysis and qualitative analysis?

Define the following terms -running records

Which the following,according to positivists,is a weakness of historical research?

Professor Randy Rudiment conducted a study of First Nations in Ontario between 1880 and 1920.He interviewed elderly Aboriginals about what they remembered about their childhood and the stories told to them by their parents and grandparents.His data is an example of

Define the following terms -qualitative content analysis

Professor Freeze Iceberg visited the national historical library and also the archives at Revenue Canada.He looked up the tax records paid each year by the 20 largest companies in Canada between 1950 and the present.This type of data is best classified as

Define the following terms -narrative history

Define the following terms -recollections

A specific type of qualitative analysis of texts that focuses on how knowledge and meaning are created through the use of language is

Define the following terms -archives

Define the following terms -discourse analysis