Surveys
Quantitative
Ethnography
Interviews
Misc. Article Findings
100
Versatility, efficiency, and generalizability
What are three advantages of survey research?
100
*****DAILY DOUBLE***** The mode of the following distribution: 37, 24, 28, 32, 37, 25, 22, 28, 30, 37, 22, 21 The median of the same distribution?
MODE - Most frequently occurring value: What is 37? MEDIAN - Medium point, or 50th %-ile: What is 28?
100
The use of ethnographic methods to study online communities such as Fbook or twitter.
What is a Netnography?
100
Advantages to using a tape recorder to audio record interviews.
What are "interview can be transcribed later verbatim, interviewer can stay engaged in the conversation, and recorders are often ignored and not intimidating"?
100
The aggressive demeanor required by a specific subculture where the main currency is respect. This survival mechanism is triggered where the influence of the police ends and personal responsibility for one's safety begins.
What is the Code of the Street?
200
The type of survey method that has the highest response rate, can include longer/complex questions, and that allows for clarification of questions as needed.
What is an in-person survey?
200
The best graphical display for nominal variables.
What is a bar chart?
200
What are the ethical issues associated with complete participation, or "going native" during field research?
What is "going along to get along." You may have to participate in unethical/illegal activities to 1) build trust, if researcher role is known, or 2) maintain your cover, if your role is covert.
200
In my Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) study of staff attitudes toward violence and safety in the facilities, we interviewed 59 staff members. While aiming to interview more of those who work in direct care with the youth, we also made sure to interview people with various levels of knowledge about how the facility functions. This sampling method is known as...
What is purposive sampling?
200
A community that functions based on a moral economy of sharing - one where law enforcement intervenes more often than healthcare.
What is the Edgewater homeless population of S.F. in Righteous Dopefiend?
300
When no identifying information is EVER collected to link a respondent to his/her answers.
What is anonymity?
300
Bivariate distribution that displays the distribution of one variable for each category in another variable.
What is a crosstabulation?
300
In his ethnography of Skid Row, Forrest Stuart assumed which role for his participant observation?
What is mixed participation/observation?
300
The point at which you have interviewed enough people that you've "heard it all before," and can stop your interviews.
What is the saturation point?
300
Pager's (2003) experimental audit study, where four confederates applied for jobs, found what?
A white man with a criminal record has the same chance of being considered for a job as a black man without one.
400
The survey method that is inexpensive and can be implemented quickly. In doing this, though, you sacrifice a fully inclusive (representative) sample.
What is a web-based/online survey?
400
The process of considering a third, extraneous variable when you believe that the relationship between two variables is spurious.
What is elaboration analysis?
400
Name the different roles that researchers can take during Participant Observation/Ethnography
What are complete observation, mixed participation/observation, and complete participation?
400
There are five keys to good intensive interviews. Name two of them.
Active listening, unstructured format, lengthy in duration, similar to a conversation, and respect for respondent.
400
Pager's (2005) follow-up phone survey of employers used in the experimental audit study, asked them about their likelihood to hire a person described as black/white and as a drug offender felon/no record. What did they find?
Survey found that 60% of employers would hire a drug offender, irrespective of race. LIARS, LIARS, PANTS ON FIRE
500
We discussed seven keys to good survey questions? Name three of them.
Concise and focused questions, avoids confusing phrasing, minimizes bias, skips irrelevant questions, good response options, allows for uncertainty, and strong design (questionnaire vs. interview schedule, mail/phone/web/in-person).
500
We discussed two ways that you can distort the distribution of a graph. Name one of them.
Starting the percentage scale on either x or y axis at something other than zero, and omitting a portion of the data.
500
With qualitative research, the design may need to evolve and change based on what the researcher encounters in the field. This type of changing research design is known as ________.
What is reflexive?
500
We discussed four goals for intensive interviews. Name one of them.
To acquire rich, in-depth information; to develop a clear language (or voice) of the respondents; to gain a complete sense of their understanding; to generate hypotheses
500
The qualitative methods that Code of the Street and Righteous Dopefiend have in common.
What are direct observations, participant observation, and in-depth interviews?
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