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While typically considered a research method congruent with an objectivist ontology, participant observation can also be used with a __________ ontological research perspective.
What is constructionist?
100
A general or abstract idea; a category that serves to organize observations and ideas about some aspect of the social world.
What is a concept?
100
Use of multiple methods to research a social phenomena. Can occur within a single research orientation or across research orientations.
What is triangulation?
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A qualitative theory that accepts the idea of an objective reality.
What is grounded theory?
100

True or false? There is one unified position among feminists when it comes to research methods?

What is false?

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Use of multiple methods to research a social phenomena. Can occur within a single research orientation or across research orientations.

What is triangulation?

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Using the natural sciences to study social reality is known as __________.
What is positivisim?
200
The most basic distinction between quantitative and qualitative research orientations is that between ______ and _______. 
What are numbers and words/images?
200
Qualitative researchers sometimes engage in ___________ when they use words such as "many", "frequently", "rarely" and "some".
What is quasi-quantification?
200
The belief that epistemological assumptions, values and methods are inextricably linked is known as _________________.
What is the paradigm argument?
300
Which typically qualitative method is the least natural?
What are structured or semi-structured interviews?
300
Social phenomenon and their meanings are continually being created by social actors. 
What is constructionism?
300
Which example was talked about last night to illustrate how quantitative researchers may be interested in meanings? This is an illustration of how a specific method is not necessarily bound to a specific ontology/epistemology.
What is using surveys to measure attitudes?
300
Critical realism is a qualitative research method which is premised upon a __________ ontological position.
What is objectivist?
300
One way qualitative research is similar to quantitative research is that it is never begun completely free of ___________ assumptions?
What is theoretical?
400
Connections between epistemology/ontology and methods are not ________________?
What is fixed or absolute?
400
Preconceptions we hold which are related to our morals and beliefs/evaluations
What are values?
400

This method is often described as being more natural than qualitative interviewing because it resembles the way in which people discuss issues in real life.

What is a focus group?

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The study of the construction, interpretation, and display of statistics in quantitative social research is known as ___________? This is an example of a qualitative approach to quantitative research.
What is ethnostatistics?
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Research is said to be driven, in part, by our ontological and epistemological positions. In practice, research is more likely to be driven by constraints on our ___________ and our ____________?
What are time and money?
500
An argument which claims that research methods are independent of any specific epistemological position and therefore can be combined in research.
What is the 'technical argument for multi-strategy research' ?
500
Inquiry using quantitative data gathering techniques and statistical analysis. Goal is to measure behaviour.
What is the quantitative research orientation or strategy?
500
Colleen holds the correct belief in what the best research orientation is while _________ is flat out wrong.
Who is Marc?
500
A content analysis of ethnographies is an example of _____________. This is an instance of a quantitative approach to qualitative research.
What is meta-ethnography?
500
Asking participants if your finished qualitative research accurately reflects what they meant to convey is known as ______________? It rarely occurs and isn't the best way at demonstrating validity anyway.
What is respondent validation?
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