An interview style designed for small groups of unrelated individuals, formed by an investigator and led in a group discussion on some particular topic or topics.
What is a Focus Group?
100
Occur naturally and are discovered by the investigators.
What are Unsolicited Documents?
100
Public Archives: Represent any written, drawn, or recorded materials produced for general or mass consumption.
What are Commercial Media Accounts?
100
Action Research: the researcher assesses the situation and creates a picture about what is going on.
What is Looking?
100
Notes taken while still in the field.
What are Cryptic Jotings?
200
An outsider’s worldview
What is Etic view?
200
Requested by investigators.
What are Solicited Documents?
200
Public Archives: produced for special or limited audiences and include official court transcripts, police reports, census information, etc.
What are Official Documentary Records?
200
Action Research: The researcher makes interpretations and offers some explanation about the case at hand.
What is Thinking?
200
Are the heart of any narrative field notes. They should include as much texture, sensation, color, and minutia as your memory permits.
What are Detailed Descriptions?
300
An insider’s view of the world
What is Emic view?
300
Using photographs as a means to enable the investigator to gain perceptual access to the world from the viewpoint of individuals who have not traditionally held control over the means of imaging the world.
What is Photovoice?
300
Public Archives: produced for special or limited audiences and include birth and death records; records of marriages and divorces, etc.
What are Actuarial Records?
300
Action Research: The researcher comes to some resolve and uses it to take action toward improving the lives of the participants.
What is Action?
300
Ideas that occur to you as you write up the full field notes.
What are Analytical Notes?
400
Embraces principles of participation, reflection, empowerment, and emancipation of people and groups interested in improving their social situation or condition.
What is Action Research?
400
A method involving systematically gathering enough information about a particular person, social setting, event, or group to permit the researcher to effectively understand how the subject operates or functions.
What is a Case Study?
400
Sources of Data: The oral or written testimony of eyewitnesses.
What is a Primary Source?
400
Dangers of Invisibility: When researchers misrepresent themselves and become invisible to normal inhabitants in a study domain, their assumed role as something else may be taken for real!
What is Intentional Misidentification?
400
Self-reflexive opportunities for you as the researcher to make personal observations and comments about feelings that you might have developed as a result of having observed some scary or personally rewarding event in the field.
What are Subjective Reflections?
500
The practice that places researchers in the midst of whatever it is they study.
What is Ethnography?
500
A careful, detailed, systematic examination and interpretation of a particular body of material in an effort to identify patterns, themes, biases, and meanings.
What is Content Analysis?
500
Sources of Data: The oral or written testimony of people not immediately present at the time of a given event.
What is a Secondary Source?
500
Dangers of Invisibility: Even if the ethnographers are socially invisible to members of this group, they may be taken as actual group members by others outside this group.
What is Accidental Misidentification?
500
Dangers of Invisibility: Tends to be an ethical issue more than a legal one due to Federal Certificates of Confidentiality