Surveys
What are three advantages of survey research?
Versatility, efficiency, and generalizability
What is the MODE of the following distribution: 37, 24, 28, 32, 37, 25, 22, 28, 30, 37, 22, 21
MODE - Most frequently occurring value: What is 37?
The use of ethnographic methods combined with photography is called what?
What is a Photo-ethnography?
We discussed three advantages to using a tape recorder to audio record interviews. Name one of them.
What are "interview can be transcribed later verbatim, interviewer can stay engaged in the conversation, and recorders are often ignored and not intimidating"?
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?
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?
The best graphical display for nominal variables.
What is a bar chart?
WhatWe watched a movie preview of The East, where a corporate spy had to go undercover to research the plans of an environmental activist group. What role did she assume for this research?
What is complete participation?
In Haerle's 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 working directly with youth. This sampling method is known as...
What is purposive sampling?
The Edgewater homeless population of S.F. in Righteous Dopefiend is a community that functions based on a moral economy of sharing - one where __________ intervenes more often than __________.
What is "law enforcement" more often than "healthcare"?
When no identifying information is EVER collected to link a respondent to his/her answers.
What is anonymity?
The best graphical display for TWO nominal variables.
What is a stacked bar chart?
In his ethnography of Skid Row, Forrest Stuart assumed which role for his research when he took a job as a videographer for the community?
What is mixed participation/observation?
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?
Anderson used three different qualitative methods in his Code of the Street ethnography. Name two of them.
What are Complete observation, Interviews, Mixed participation/observation
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?
This measure of central tendency is found by taking the sum of all cases and then dividing by the number of cases.
What is the mean?
Ethnography, like all qualitative research, is deductive / inductive and exploratory / explanatory.
What is inductive and exploratory?
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.
In her research on the Congolese gangs in Brussels, Elke needed to use which type of sampling method to gain access to this group?
What is snowball sampling?
We discussed seven keys to good survey questions? Name four of them.
CABS RUD: Concise and focused questions Avoids confusing phrasing minimizes Bias Skips irrelevant questions Response options Uncertainty allowed Design is strong (questionnaire vs. interview schedule, mail/phone/web/in-person).
We discussed two ways that you can distort the distribution of a graph. Name one of them.
1) Starting the percentage scale on either x or y axis at something other than zero, and 2) Omitting a portion of the data.
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.
During his interviews, Anderson found the existence of two types of families as he developed his theory about The Code of the Street. Name one of these and define it.
What are decent families or street families?
Decent –Acknowledge mainstream values –Children taught self-defense re: the Code
Street –The Code is used to socialize children into subcultural values
The process of analyzing qualitative data using inductive analysis (sorting data by topic as you go) is used to generate what type of theory?
What is grounded theory?