A researcher who wants to study the correlation between hotel decor and customer satisfaction decides to book a room in this hotel in Las Vegas because it hosts one of the most magnificent fountains in the world.
What is Bellagio?
100
What kind of questions are more particular about operationalisations? Research or interview questions?
What are Interview questions?
100
What is the main issue that McCorkel and Myers' article wishes to address?
What is "the influence of researchers’ identity and privilege affecting social research?"
100
McCorkle did research on imprisoned women. This star of "Mean Girls" was imprisoned for one day for driving under the influence.
Who is Lindsay Lohan?
100
What makes a research question more sound and focused? One that stays the same from the beginning or one that adapts and changes as the research progresses?
What is "one that adapts and changes as the research progresses?"
200
Name one initial difficulty caused by McCorkel’s identity in her observation of the prison setting.
What is:
1) Imposing her own experience upon the experience of the inmates.
2) Overemphasizing the similarities between her own experiences with drugs and those of the inmates.
200
Define the standpoint theory.
What is a theory that requires researchers to specify location and contexts in which knowledge is produced?
200
A research wants to conduct a qualitative study on the residents who live around the Grand Canyon. Which state must he fly to?
What is Nevada?
200
Name one major disadvantage of using pure "observation" as a research method.
What is ___________________?
200
A researcher starts with a social theory that they find compelling and then tests its implications with data. That is, they move from a more general level to a more specific one. Is this a deductive or inductive research?
What is "deductive research?"
300
What is the name of the research approach where community members become partners in the research process, and commit to action for social change?
What is Participatory Action Research?
300
Is the design cycle more of a deductive or inductive conceptual cycle?
What is "deductive conceptual cycle?"
300
When a researcher hits a stage of information saturation, what does that mean?
What is "new information is no longer coming up."
300
This research strategy limits researchers to examining only those who occupy similar or more powerful positions in society.
What is "study up?"
300
A researcher wants to study the emergence of internet memes through the photo of "_________". This nickname was given to Zeddie Little after his dashing marathon photograph went viral online in 2012.
*DAILY DOUBLE*
Who is the Ridiculously Photogenic Guy?
400
McCorkel initially asked "Why don’t female inmates resist the conditions of their confinement?" What was her concluding answer to this question?
What is "They did try to resist but it was just not within the same terms McCorkle has come to define 'resistance'"?
400
A researcher decides to study the human impacts that the Olympics Games have on hosting nations. Athens hosted the first ever Summer Olympics Games in 1896. What year did the second Olympics hosted by Athens take place?
What is 2004?
400
McCorkle and Myers argue that positivism's claim of objectivity is often a result of privileging the context of justification (i.e., methods and procedures through which hypotheses are tested) and not the context of ________ (i.e., origin of scientific theories and the problematics that require explanation)?
What is "discovery?"
400
In Myers' study, she studied the women of various intersectionalities (class, gender, race). What is intersectionality?
What is "the study of intersections between forms or systems of oppression, domination or discrimination?"
400
McCorkle went into the jails and became friends with the inmates. What kind of research method is this?
What is "Ethnography?"
500
Learning from McCorkle and Myers’ experiences, how do we keep our positionality in check when we are about to embark on social research? Name three ways.
What is ___________?
500
Theory is an excellent tool for grounding research. McCorkle and Myers use a standpoint epistemology to ground their claims. Critically evaluate the appropriateness of using this theoretical framework by listing the advantages and disadvantages (2 each).
What is ______________?
500
Name two advantages of using in-depth interviews as a research tool (QRM) and describe how these advantages benefited McCorkle's research on imprisoned women.
What is _____________________?
500
Refer to the diagram on pg. 29 of QRM and provide two ways that the cycle informed McCorkle and Myers' research.
What is ________.
500
Provide an example of how McCorkle and Myers' attempted to achieve verstehen in their respective studies.