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What is Field research?
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Involves the researcher directly observing and participating in small-scale social settings, most often in his or her home culture, also used when we want to learn about, understand, or describe a group of interacting people
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What term do field researchers use to refer to participants?
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members
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What is ethnography (qualitatitve technique)
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Field research that emphasizes providing a very detailed description of a different culture from the viewpoint of an insider in the culture to facilitate understanding of it.
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Difference between explicit knowledge and tacit (implicit)
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Explicit: what we know or talk about or the codified knowledge that can be written down, transmitted, or understood by a recipient
Implicit (tacit): what we implicitly know but rarely acknowledge directly or is the kind of knowledge that is difficult to transfer to another person by means of writing it down or verbalizing it. |
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Give a description of the principle of naturalism
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Researchers should examine events as they occur in nature, every day, ongoing social settings
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The basics of focus group research
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A group of people informally “interviewed” in a discussion setting that is participating in a qualitative research technique
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How many people should we include in a single focus group
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*6-12 individuals
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How many individual groups you want for a group study.
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4-6 separate groups
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What is Historical comparative research methods
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Used to compare entire cultures or societies to learn about macro patterns or long term trends across decades or a century
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5 main ethnical issues with field research
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*Covert research, confidentiality, involvement with illegal behavior, the powerful, publishing field reports
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What is qualitative code and what other word do researchers use to refer to these qualitative codes
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Open coding, axial coding, and selective coding
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How to use analytical memos when doing qualitative research
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They are the written down thoughts or discussions about the coding process used, they link concrete data or raw evidence to abstract theoretical thinking. They are filed by concept or theme
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QCA. Qualitative comparative analytic technique and the other analytic strategies for qualitative data.
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Qualitative data analysis in computer software based on Boolean logic that examines combinations of explanatory factors in various outcome measures to help a researcher identify complex, contingent, casual relations. *Other strategies: ideal type, successive approximation, illustrative method, domain analysis, analytic comparison, narrative analysis, and negative case method.
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Know the Basics about the illustrative method and what is an empty box.
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A method of qualitative data analysis that takes theoretical concepts and treats them as empty boxes to be filled with specific empirical examples and descriptions. An empty box is the conceptual categories and explanation used as part of the illustrative method.
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What do social researchers mean about the term out cropping.
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An aspect of qualitative data analysis that recognizes some event or feature as representing deeper structural relations
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The 3 benefits that come from listing your codes for qualitative research
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frees researcher from details of raw data
encourages higher level thinking moves researcher toward theory and generalizations |
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What norm in the scientific community is most closely aligned with the practice of writing reports in disseminating research
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norm of communalism
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Difference between paraphrasing and plagiarism
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Plagiarism is the theft of another persons ideas by using his or hers exact words and the ideas without properly documenting the original source.
Paraphrasing is the restating an authors ideas in ones own words and giving proper credit to the original source |
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What are some words that a basic researcher might use compared to an applied researcher
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applied: abstract or executive summary, results/findings
basic: intro, lit. review, hypotheses, results methods, discussion, conclusion, recommendation, references, appendices/footnotes |
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What is Academic freedom
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The concept that researchers and/or teachers are free to examine all topics and discuss all ideas with out any restrictions, threats or interference from people or authorities outside the community of teachers, scholars and scientist.
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What is a relational position
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Karl Mannheim’s idea that professional academic researchers and intellectuals occupy a unique social position and are detached from the major groups in society which puts them in the best position to develop unbiased knowledge
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What is project Camelot (social science). Describe the project and list the reasons why it was controversial.
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A controversial social research project in Chile founded by the US Army in the 1960’s that violated ethical principles and raised major political concerns.
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