Ethnography
Regularity of behavior that wouldn't logically have to be that way.
What is a claim? (or theme)
A research method that allows researchers to explore a broad range of topics and save money while getting individual responses.
What is a group interview?
1. Social interaction is governed by rules as
shown in its recurrent patterns. 2. Conversation is not about meaning but about action. 3. Analysis must be grounded in data.
What are the assumptions of conversation analysis (CA)?
The two research strategies combined for a mixed methods approach.
What are quantitative and qualitative research strategies?
The type of research strategy associated with an inductive connection to theory.
What is a qualitative research strategy?
The sampling technique used by Stuart in his study on social media and gang violence.
What is purposive snowball/theoretical sampling?
A research method that allows participants to bring important issues to the fore and challenge each other on them.
What is a focus group?
They allow people an opening to report anything unexpected or urgent at the beginning of a conversation.
What are how are yous?
The motivation that uses one research strategy to corroborate the findings of another.
What is triangulation?
A type of sampling that is ongoing until there is no new theory emerging.
What is theoretical sampling?
The data used by Stuart in his study on social media and gang violence.
What are field notes and interview transcripts?
The sampling method used in the Coffman et al. study of Latino immigrants engaging in self-medication.
What is (non-probability) convenience sampling?
A method used by parents to convey that a doctor visit is not business as usual.
1. Not reciprocating how are you. 2. Presenting problem before the doctor can ask. 3. Using the first how are you for problem presentation. 4. Skipping how are you.
One of the research methods used in the parent-physician communication study.
What is conversation analysis/survey methods/structured observation?
A method that relies on recordings.
What is structured observation/qualitative interviews/conversation analysis/focus groups?
The study that found that doctors resist classifying deaths as suicides.
What is Timmermans' suicide study?
One of the findings (themes) of Lureau's (interview) study on the role of fathers in family life.
1. Objective lack of knowledge about their children. 2. Ideological commitment to childrearing. 3. Other important roles.
The common outcome (from the police-citizen interaction study) when officers ignore a citizen's agenda.
What is escalation to argument/violence?
The motivation that uses two research strategies in order to speak to policy people or practitioners.
What is utility?
The study that showed how police brutality caught on tape was reconstructed by the defense during trial.
What is Goodwin's study of the Rodney King trial?
The study that found that students were held morally accountable for using spoken language.
What is Montiegal's study of a deaf/hard of hearing preschool?
One of the findings (themes) of Cottee-Lane et al.'s (interview) study of parents' experience of children with anorexia.
1. Hard to understand. 2. High impact (anorexia is a monster, a living nightmare, a source of concern). 3. Helplessness.
The type of sampling used by the study on police-citizen interactions.
What is a convenience sampling?
The method of establishing the problem in medical visits that leads doctors to rule out antibiotics during the treatment phase.
What is a candidate diagnosis?
A key area of difference between quantitative and qualitative approaches.
What is relationship to theory/ontological orientation/epistemological orientation?