Question 1

Qualitative researchers often succeed at keeping their professional lives entirely separate from their personal lives.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  False

Question 2

Discuss why students mistakenly assume qualitative research is the same as common sense.

Accepted Answer

Strong answers will make an attempt to refer to or directly quote Glassner and Hertz (1999:x) who note that "the job of the scholar is to take the ordinary events and make them extraordinary and to demonstrate how the extraordinary is routine." In terms of topics, qualitative researchers often use experiences from everyday life to develop their research ideas and use what they have learned as qualitative researchers to go about their daily lives. For these reasons, people sometimes mistakenly assume that qualitative research is easy and the patterns and meaning that qualitative researchers uncover and describe is only common sense

Question 3

According to the textbook, qualitative researchers often get their research ideas from ________.

Accepted Answer

A)   reviewing the existing literature and identifying key "gaps"
B)   using experiences from everyday life
C)   students' essays and assignments
D)   the classic figures in sociology, such as Marx, Durkheim, and Weber B

Question 4

The textbook notes that it is virtually impossible to take an ethical approach to qualitative research.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Qualitative researchers refer to the people they interview or observe as ________.

Accepted Answer

A)   subjects
B)   friends
C)   participants
D)   attendees

Question 6

Sociologist Shulamit Reinharz refers to her habit of "being extremely attentive" to her surroundings and noticing "patterns in the mundane experiences of everyday life" as ________.

Accepted Answer

A)   scientific integrity
B)   an occupational hazard
C)   obsessive nosiness
D)   a special gift that only sociologists have

Question 7

The importance of ethical issues in qualitative research is ________.

Accepted Answer

A)   demonstrated by the fact that a whole chapter in the textbook is devoted to the issue
B)   vastly overstated
C)   demonstrated by the fact that the textbook devotes little attention to the issue
D)   highly disputed

Question 8

One of the most important conferences for qualitative research in Canada is called the ________.

Accepted Answer

A)   Summit on Qualitative Research in Canada
B)   Canadian Qualitative Analysis Conference
C)   Annual Canadian Qualitative Researchers Meeting
D)   Canadian Congress of Qualitative Methods

Question 9

While conducting research, qualitative researchers need to be very aware of ________.

Accepted Answer

A)   social interactions that occur in the environment they are in
B)   who else is in their social environment
C)   the geography of their physical environment
D)   the physical and social environment they are in, who else is in it, and how they are acting and interacting

Question 10

Discuss issues related to personality and skill set that might make it difficult for someone to be a successful qualitative researcher. Feel free to talk about your own experience to apply ideas from the textbook.

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Question 11

Without reading ahead in the textbook, identify a research topic that is full of ethical dilemmas and explain why.

Accepted Answer

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Question 12

Using the author's example of research on widowhood, explain the respective advantages and disadvantages of qualitative and quantitative methods.

Accepted Answer

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Question 13

When a researcher uses a participatory approach with those interviewed or observed, the term participant is often used rather than subject.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

One of the advantages of qualitative methods is that they can often lead to the gaining of a deeper understanding of the participants than could be acquired through quantitative methods.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

When discussing research on widows' well-being, the textbook notes that qualitative methods ________.

Accepted Answer

A)   help discover series of correlations that sum up how the women adjust to well-being
B)   are less invasive than quantitative ones
C)   enable the researcher to encourage the women to define their experiences
D)   enable the researcher to discover objective expectations

Question 16

The textbook suggests that the different body postures and positions of male and female students she observed in the university classroom demonstrate ________.

Accepted Answer

A)   that the behaviour of males and females is identical
B)   that little can be learned from casual observation
C)   the presence of gender inequality is everywhere
D)   how the use of space is gendered

Question 17

Briefly discuss Candace West's work on dog parks and what this example demonstrates.

Accepted Answer

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Question 18

Qualitative studies ________.

Accepted Answer

A)   explore the social worlds of very diverse groups
B)   tend to focus on individuals who are considered deviant
C)   mostly focus on powerful groups within society
D)   about any topic are rather dry

Question 19

All of the following are approaches used by qualitative researchers except ________.

Accepted Answer

A)   in-depth interviewing
B)   participant observation
C)   surveys that ask about frequency
D)   document analysis

Question 20

According to the textbook, qualitative methods are "powerful" because ________.

Accepted Answer

A)   researchers are able to generate publishable data without actually talking to people
B)   they allow the studied people to define what is central and important in their experience
C)   they always uncover taken-for-granted truths
D)   they allow human experience to be collapsed into easily analyzable numerical categories

Exam 1: Introduction

Qualitative researchers often succeed at keeping their professional lives entirely separate from their personal lives.

Discuss why students mistakenly assume qualitative research is the same as common sense.

According to the textbook, qualitative researchers often get their research ideas from ________.

The textbook notes that it is virtually impossible to take an ethical approach to qualitative research.

Qualitative researchers refer to the people they interview or observe as ________.

Sociologist Shulamit Reinharz refers to her habit of "being extremely attentive" to her surroundings and noticing "patterns in the mundane experiences of everyday life" as ________.

The importance of ethical issues in qualitative research is ________.

One of the most important conferences for qualitative research in Canada is called the ________.

While conducting research, qualitative researchers need to be very aware of ________.

Discuss issues related to personality and skill set that might make it difficult for someone to be a successful qualitative researcher. Feel free to talk about your own experience to apply ideas from the textbook.

Without reading ahead in the textbook, identify a research topic that is full of ethical dilemmas and explain why.

Using the author's example of research on widowhood, explain the respective advantages and disadvantages of qualitative and quantitative methods.

When a researcher uses a participatory approach with those interviewed or observed, the term participant is often used rather than subject.

One of the advantages of qualitative methods is that they can often lead to the gaining of a deeper understanding of the participants than could be acquired through quantitative methods.

When discussing research on widows' well-being, the textbook notes that qualitative methods ________.

The textbook suggests that the different body postures and positions of male and female students she observed in the university classroom demonstrate ________.

Briefly discuss Candace West's work on dog parks and what this example demonstrates.

Qualitative studies ________.

All of the following are approaches used by qualitative researchers except ________.

According to the textbook, qualitative methods are "powerful" because ________.