Intro to Qualitative Methods
It is useful to think of qualitative research not as a calculation, but as this.
What is a conversation?
This is the best type of interview for a very large sample size.
What is a structured interview or survey?
This is the privileged form of knowledge to which visual methods tries to offer an alternative.
What is text or text-based analysis?
What is a contrived setting?
Researchers working with human subjects must always have their research approved by one of these.
What is an ethics review board?
This is Step 7 in the typical research cycle.
What is informing others?
This term refers to investigation into the nature of knowledge and how it is acquired.
What is epistemology?
This type of question is ideal for semi-structured interviews because it encourages descriptive responses.
This is the ultimate aim of most participatory and/or action-based methods.
What is positive social change?
This is the primary source of data when the research method is observation.
What are fieldnotes?
This commonly used tool helps researchers obtain consent from research participants at the outset of a project.
What is a consent form?
This is a person or group that can grant or deny access to a particular community or research setting.
What is a gatekeeper or key contact?
This type of reasoning starts with a theory, then tests a hypothesis through observation.
What is deductive reasoning?
One of the advantages of focus groups over individual interviews is that they can reveal this.
What are group dynamics?
This method uses photographs to help prompt interview participants to remember or describe events in greater detail.
What is photo elicitation?
What is ethnography?
The consideration of whether or not research deals with a marginalized group falls under which core principle of the TCPS2?
What is justice?
These kinds of questions are better left until later in an interview (or further down in an interview guide), after more trust and comfort have been established.
What are questions about feelings, beliefs, or opinions?
This is the main goal of most qualitative research.
What is the understanding of lived experience?
What is a convergence focus group?
Who are the research participants?
Ethnographers use this principle when trying to understand a complex sociocultural setting in the field.
What is holism?
What is reflexivity?
The theory of intersectionality has its roots in the traditions of which groups of scholars?
Who are feminist scholars and scholars of colour?
Feminist theory is an example of this epistemological approach.
What is standpoint theory?
This is the most widely-used interview format in qualitative research.
What is an in-depth semi-structured interview?
Using these to communicate allows us to represent concepts, emotions, and information in a non-linear way.
What are drawings or images?
When researchers use more than one method to generate more robust data, they are using this technique.
What is triangulation?
A person's intersecting identities may place them in different positions with respect to which two social phenomena?
What are power and privilege?
When applying this concept, research seeks to engage the senses holistically and to situate knowledge in the body of the knower.
What is embodiment or embodied knowledge?