Question 1

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 ______.

Accepted Answer

A)  a priori codes 
B)  indigenous codes 
C)  analyst-constructed codes 
D)  open codes

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

A)  ask questions in the exact order they appear on your cheat sheet 
B)  ask your questions with the same wording for all of the respondents 
C)  try to link the questions to something the participant has just said 
D)  avoid asking any follow-up questions that other participants haven't also answered

Question 3

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  snowball sampling 
B)  maximum variation sampling 
C)  homogenous sampling 
D)  convenience sampling

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

A)  random sampling 
B)  maximum variation sampling 
C)  snowball sampling 
D)  convenience sampling

Question 5

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.

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Question 6

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

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Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

A)  try to change their views of masculinity and femininity 
B)  include your negative impressions when presenting the results 
C)  listen to them respectfully and avoid passing judgment 
D)  discontinue the interview and ask them to leave

Question 8

From an interpretivist perspective, objectivity means ______.

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A)  making sure that your own personal experiences and characteristics do not affect the research outcomes in any way 
B)  treating every research participant in exactly the same way 
C)  accurately reporting the views and experiences of your participants, even if you don't like them 
D)  asking each participant the same questions in the same order

Question 9

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

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Question 10

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

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A)  as much in-depth data from a small group of people as you can 
B)  a little bit of information from as many people as you can 
C)  data that can be generalized to a larger population 
D)  data that can be easily replicated by other researchers

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

A)  ask, "Is there anything I didn't ask that I should have?" 
B)  ask, "Do you have any questions for me?" 
C)  ask, "Are there any of your answers you want me to delete from the interview or transcripts?" 
D)  say, "Here's my card. If you want to change any of your answers after you've thought about them, just let me know."

Question 12

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

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Question 13

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  "Nobody has really ever treated you differently because of your gender? Are you sure? Maybe you're just too used to it to notice." 
B)  "Well, the rest of my questions were going to be about your experiences of prejudice, so if you haven't had any, I guess I don't have any more questions for you." 
C)  "Most of my other participants have had a lot of experiences of gender discrimination. Why do you think your experience is so different from theirs?" 
D)  "The research on gender relations in the workplace documents that it is super common, so I have a hard time believing that. I mean, are you saying that the research is wrong?"

Question 14

Interview research largely grew out of ______ theory.

Accepted Answer

A)  critical 
B)  structural functionalist 
C)  symbolic interaction 
D)  feminist

Question 15

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

Accepted Answer

A)  social trends 
B)  attitudes 
C)  decision-making processes 
D)  cause and effect

Question 16

By what criteria should interview research be judged?

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Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Participants should always sign their pseudonym on the consent statement. 
B)  You do not have to reveal to participants who is conducting the study. 
C)  It is better to tell participants that the research will take less than an hour, even if you think it will be longer, so that they will be more likely to agree to participate. 
D)  Participants should be told they do not have to answer any questions they don't want to answer.

Question 18

The purpose of interview sampling is to ______.

Accepted Answer

A)  find participants that are representative of the general population 
B)  locate participants who are willing to share lots of detailed information with you 
C)  assure everyone has the same chance of being chosen for your research 
D)  choose participants that you think will have the best information

Question 19

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?

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Question 20

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.

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