FOUNDATIONS
The lecture identifies this as the smallest, most localized form of culture (e.g., inside jokes).
What is idioculture?
Grounded theory ends sampling when no new analytic insights arise—this point.
What is saturation?
This researcher conducted covert research in public bathrooms (“tearooms”).
Who is Laud Humphreys?
Interview guides should avoid these types of questions because they produce justifications.
What are “why” questions?
People who grant or control access to the field.
Who are gatekeepers?
This linguist’s work is invoked to show that meanings come from relations between symbols.
Who is Ferdinand de Saussure?
A sampling approach highlighted for reaching participants through referrals.
What is snowball sampling?
One of two studies that helped create modern Research Ethics Boards.
What is the Tuskegee syphilis study?
Goffman’s concept stating participants manage impressions during interviews.
What is face?
The level of involvement in which an ethnographer becomes an actual group member.
What is going native?
The text says symbols “precede us”; this makes this phenomenon possible among people.
What is intersubjectivity?
The recruitment text about Muslims in Quebec risks this form of systematic bias.
What is selection bias?
The other major foundational ethics controversy discussed.
What are the Milgram obedience experiments?
Cross-checking interviews with another method is called this.
What is triangulation?
The ethnographic study in which the researcher worked as a police officer.
What is Cop in the Hood?
Howard Becker’s major book on the art world’s collaborative nature.
What is Art Worlds?
The book cited as an example of flawed sampling in studies of gentrification.
What is There Goes the 'Hood?
Oscar Lewis proposed this controversial cultural explanation for persistent poverty.
What is the culture of poverty?
The lecture says this emotional signal can indicate sincerity.
What are strong emotions?
Dorothy Smith created this method: sociology “for” people.
What is Institutional Ethnography?
According to Lecture 1, this type of validity—focused on capturing the specific rather than the general—is the primary aim of qualitative research.
What is idiographic validity?
The lecture contrasts sampling decisions in Promises I Can Keep, written by these two authors.
Who are Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas?
Fine’s term describing partial disclosure rather than full informed consent.
What is shallow cover?
Weiss instructs interviewers to pay attention to these cues that signal follow-up opportunities.
What are markers?
The authors of Black Metropolis.
Who are St. Clair Drake and Horace Cayton?