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Qualitative Research Methods For The Social Sciences 8Th Edition Lune Test Bank Full Chapter PDF
Qualitative Research Methods For The Social Sciences 8Th Edition Lune Test Bank Full Chapter PDF
Qualitative Research Methods For The Social Sciences 8Th Edition Lune Test Bank Full Chapter PDF
3) A practice placing researchers in the midst of whatever it is they study where they can examine various phenomena
as perceived by participants and represent these observations as accounts is called _____________.
A) street ethnography
B) organizational ethnography
C) medical ethnography
D) ethnography
Answer: D
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 197
Skill: Knowledge
4) An immersion technique that is extremely efficient at studying illicit drug use and users is called ___________.
A) street ethnography
B) organizational ethnography
C) medical ethnography
D) ethnography
Answer: A
Diff: 3 Page Ref: 196
Skill: Knowledge
5) When a researcher records sufficient detail that the reader can distinguish a wink from a twitch and a parody of a
wink is distinguishable from an actual wink in order to discover the meanings behind the acts, it is called
___________.
A) thick description
B) subjective soaking
C) emic view
D) etic view
Answer: A
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 197
Skill: Knowledge
7) The understanding of a social environment from an outsider position is called __________. This is the perspective
created in the researcher’s analysis, products of interpretations of meaning, theoretical and analytic explanations,
and understandings of symbols as mediated through the researcher.
A) thick description
B) subjective soaking
C) emic view
D) etic view
Answer: D
Diff: 3 Page Ref: 198
Skill: Knowledge
8) The worldview of the native inhabitants of a particular social environment, or insiders, is called ______________.
A) thick description
B) subjective soaking
C) emic view
D) etic view
Answer: C
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 198
Skill: Knowledge
9) A change in the definition of ethnography to include a set of highly formal techniques designed to extract cognitive
data is called _________________.
A) new ethnography
B) macroethnography
C) microethnography
D) ethnonursing research
Answer: A
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 198
Skill: Knowledge
10) Conducting a study and analysis of some local or indigenous people’s viewpoints, beliefs, and practices about
nursing care behavior and processes as mediated by cultures is called ______.
A) new ethnography
B) macroethnography
C) microethnography
D) ethnonursing research
Answer: D
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 197
Skill: Knowledge
12) A research endeavor that focuses on particular incisions at particular points in the larger setting, group, or institution
that are thought to represent salient elements in the lives of participants and in turn, in the life of the larger group or
institution is called ___________.
A) new ethnography
B) macroethnography
C) microethnography
D) ethnonursing research
Answer: C
Diff: 3 Page Ref: 199-200
Skill: Knowledge
13) When researchers take care not to impose their own views or take any stands on social or political issues, but to
study the world as an external investigator, this is called ___________________.
A) value-neutral position
B) reflectivity
C) positivism
D) critical perspective
Answer: A
Diff: 4 Page Ref: 208
Skill: Knowledge
14) A researcher who enters a setting for study because it is available and convenient to study is exhibiting
_____________.
A) subjective motivation
B) external motivation
C) critical ethnography
D) positivism
Answer: B
Diff: 4 Page Ref: 212
Skill: Knowledge
15) A person indigenous to the group and setting being studied who is convinced that the study is worthwhile and
meaningful to group, and that no harm will fall upon the group, and then extends his or her credibility among the
group to the researcher is a(n) ___________.
A) gatekeeper
B) guide
C) informant
D) bargainer
Answer: B
Diff: 3 Page Ref: 215
Skill: Knowledge
17) When subjects know they are in a research study and alter their usual or routine behavior to react to the presence of
the researcher, this is called _________________.
A) a research bargain
B) subjective research
C) Hawthorne effect
D) an overly simplified question
Answer: C
Diff: 3 Page Ref: 217
Skill: Comprehension
18) When a researcher exposes himself or herself to otherwise avoidable dangers simply by having to be in a dangerous
setting or circumstance to carry out research, this is called _______________.
A) situational risk
B) ethnographic danger
C) ambient risk
D) unnecessary risk
Answer: C
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 222
Skill: Application
19) When a researcher’s presence or behaviors in a research setting trigger conflict, violence, or hostility from others in
a setting, this is called _________________.
A) situational risk
B) ethnographic danger
C) ambient risk
D) unnecessary risk
Answer: A
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 222
Skill: Application
21) Brief reminder notes that are written down and used later to jog the researcher’s memory are called ___________.
A) mental notes
B) jotted notes
C) complete notes
D) analytic notes
Answer: B
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 231
Skill: Comprehension
23) Using computer technology such as the Web, and programs to incorporate audio, visual, and written documentation
of field events into one account with links among data, analysis, and interpretative and supportive texts is called
______________.
A) ethnographic record
B) macroethnography
C) online ethnography
D) hypermedia ethnography
Answer: D
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 238
Skill: Application
24) Exploring online social worlds such as multiplayer games, wikis, blogs, and discussion boards among other social
media through observations between networks is called ______________.
A) ethnographic record
B) macroethnography
C) online ethnography
D) hypermedia ethnography
Answer: C
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 239
Skill: Application
25) A systematic method for classifying similar events, actions, objects, people, or places into discrete groupings is
called _____________.
A) typology
B) sociogram
C) metaphor
D) nomination
Answer: A
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 242
Skill: Comprehension
26) A procedure that allows a researcher to make assessments about the degree of affinity or disdain that members of a
group have toward one another is called ______________.
A) typology
B) sociogram
C) metaphor
D) nomination
Answer: B
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 244
Skill: Comprehension
3) Explain the term critical ethnography, and how it overlaps with, yet diverges from, conventional ethnography.
Answer: Critical ethnography is an orientation where the researcher has a concern about social inequalities and
directs his or her efforts toward positive change. Theory, in this model, should not only document social
problems, but advocate for positive social change. The major element is a value-laden approach that seeks
to empower participants by challenging the status quo and addressing various concerns about power and
control structures. This strategy overlaps with conventional ethnography in that both rely on qualitative
data gathered through interviews, focus groups, observations, etc., and interpreting these data. Both
believe the symbolic interactionist paradigm and hope to move toward development of grounded theory.
However, the two strategies have differences. Conventional ethnography refers to the tradition of cultural
descriptions and the analysis of various meanings or shared meanings through the interpretation of
meaning. Critical ethnography refers to a reflective approach through which the researcher chooses
between alternatives and makes value-laden judgments of meanings and methods in order to challenge
research, or policy. Conventional ethnography documents what is, while critical ethnography sees to
understand what could be. It has a driven purpose to intentionally seek positive change and empowerment
for participants.
Diff: 3 Page Ref: 206
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4) Explain the state of mind a researcher should take when beginning an ethnographic study.
Answer: The researcher’s goal is to observe participants, not to correct their behavior. It is to appreciate how the
setting is and to be empathetic to participant circumstances. Researchers do not have to agree with subject
perceptions, but must feel empathy. Researchers will need to define themselves to participants in order to
establish rapport, and subjects will likely look for clues as to how the researcher perceives them. The
researcher must be able to be open and honest when establishing himself or herself as neither an advocate
nor opponent, just an honestly curious observer. Even in critical ethnography, the researcher must be
neutral to the scenario studied, even when wishing that research will help to improve the participants’
circumstances.
Diff: 6 Page Ref: 207-208
5) Why do social scientists recognize that research is seldom value-neutral? When is it important for the researcher to
stop being value-neutral?
Answer: The researcher selects a topic because of an interest in a subject matter. This interest derives from a
reason: politically advantageous, to receive grant money, a humanistic drive toward a social problem, or
because one has experienced a social problem. Social scientists are humans too, and as such are a product
of the values, moral attitudes, and beliefs orienting their social group. Even selecting certain terms to use
in research (e.g., drug abuser) can reproduce a value system that defines their subjects in a particular way
prior to even entering the field. The term itself can skew the reader’s feelings by giving research subjects
a demeaning label. Researchers can use the word “I” to take ownership and responsibility for what
observations they make. Pretending to be neutral can prevent a researcher from examining his or her own
cultural assumptions or personal experiences. When researchers are forthright about why they chose their
topics, it offers a better understanding of who is conducting research, and why. The researcher shares the
research experience, giving insight into the world of research to the reader.
Diff: 6 Page Ref: 208-209
7) There are six ways that a researcher can strive for invisibility, or to see what’s going on without being observed and
hence, capture the essence of a situation. Describe how each method works.
Answer:
1. Disattending: Erosion of visibility by time. An ethnographer can fade into the background after being in a
setting for a long time so that the inhabitants are no longer aware of his or her presence.
2. Disattending: Erosion of visibility by display of no symbolic detachment. Ethnographers act as if they
belong to become invisible within the group by downplaying differences between researcher and study
population. This involves dressing like a local, acting like a member of the community, or demonstrating
an insider’s knowledge of jokes or expectations.
3. Disattending: Erosion of visibility by display of symbolic detachment. Researcher actively works toward
invisibility by participating with ordinary inhabitants in their everyday routines so that subjects recognize
the researcher in a non-research role, and the research is not the central issue when thinking of the
researcher.
4. Disattending: Erosion of visibility by personalizing the ethnographer-informant relationship. The
researcher becomes invisible by winning over the participants through rapport. The subjects suspend
concern over research in favor of liking the researcher as a person.
9) Explain the four steps to learning what to watch and listen for when conducting ethnography.
Answer:
1. Taking in the physical setting: Wander the setting, and map the setting through drawings and field notes.
This allows the researcher to determine how to cover these areas in an efficient and effective manner, to
begin getting acquainted with inhabitants, and to draw first impressions. First impressions and friendly
interaction with inhabitants can create points of reference or rapport later.
2. Developing relationships with inhabitants (locating potential guides and informants): Researcher must
locate a guide by being passively present in the situation, and ensuring locals that all information
collected will be held in strict confidence. Researchers may need to show credentials. Guides should be
flattered (though not overly) for their expert knowledge of the group, and how it is invaluable to the
researcher. Then the researcher should gain permission to spend time in the setting in proximity to the
guide.
3. Tracking, observing, eavesdropping, and asking questions: After gaining access to several guides, the
researcher should follow the guide and watch other activities, daily routines, and interactions with the
people they interact with. Researchers should eavesdrop on the guide’s conversations. Researchers can
learn a lot about an event just by being present while people are discussing it. Researchers may hear terms
they do not understand the meaning of. It is helpful to note these down, and ask a guide or participant of
their meaning at a later date. The researcher must be obviously present when eavesdropping, not hiding in
the bushes.
4. Locating subgroups and stars (central characters in various subgroups): Subgroups are people who spend
more time with one another than others. They may not be a formal group, but rather a form of social
networking. Using these social networks, researchers can determine who are the central figures of a given
network. These figures are referred to as opinion leaders, or stars. Developing a relationship with, and
gaining approval of a star can be as important as gaining access through a gatekeeper. Researchers should
gain access to a star as soon as possible after entering a setting.
Diff: 5 Page Ref:226–229
11) Explain the four distinct elements that go into creating full and detailed field notes:
Answer:
1. Cryptic Jottings: Brief statements, sketches, short notes, or odd/unusual terms heard in the field that will
trigger a memory later when writing full field notes.
2. Detailed Descriptions: The heart of field notes that includes as much texture, color, and sensation
remembered. Conversations should be replicated as close to verbatim as possible with details including
how people appeared, what they said, what they did, and noticeable characteristics (scars, tattoos,
concealed weapons).
3. Analytic Notes: Sometimes referred to as observer comments, these are the ideas that occur to you as you
write up full field notes. They might be linkages between people or theories serving to explain something
in the field, or a judgment observation about a subject. They should be noted as an observer comment.
4. Subjective Reflections: These are the personal observations and comments about feelings that the
researcher may have had as a result of observing something in the field. These should be labeled as
subjective reflections.
5. Additionally, researchers must record time and duration or field notes, and consistent pseudonyms for
places and people. An ethnographer should maintain a list of the pseudonyms assigned to each person and
location recorded in their field notes.
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12) How can a researcher record more exactly the events that occur during a field session?
Answer:
1. Record key words and key phrases while in the field: Abstract key terms or sentences and write these
down while indicating the time the conversation occurred.
2. Make notes about the sequence of events: Jot notes about what occurred before the noted action, what was
observed, and what occurred following the noted events. This allows researchers to lay out scraps of field
notes in sequence.
3. Limit the time you remain in the setting: Writing field notes takes about four times the length of time
spent in the field. Researchers should limit time in the field to increase quality notes.
4. Write the full notes immediately after exiting the field: Memory erosion begins immediately and
progresses rapidly. The longer the researcher waits to translate cryptic notes, the less he or she will
remember.
5. Get your notes written before sharing them with others. Refrain from telling others about the events to
keep from accidentally embellishing events, and as a result, flawing and contaminating important data.
Diff: 5 Page Ref: 234–235
‘SO we saunter towards the Holy Land, till one day the sun shall
shine more brightly than ever he has done, shall perchance shine
into our minds and hearts, and light up our whole lives with a great
awakening light, as warm and serene and golden as on a bankside
in autumn.’ These were the last words I heard from my friend’s lips.
He had a serious relapse, shortly after our visit to the country, and
died within a few days. And now I am divided between a deep sense
of personal loss and my duty to his memory. He would, I know, have
had me look upon his journey to the ‘Other Side’ in the light of a
pilgrimage, gone upon bravely, cheerfully, in perfect confidence.
By my side is a letter in which he speaks of this attitude in the course
of a reference to our day in the country. ‘I have been reading,’ he
says, ‘a volume of Mr. A. C. Benson’s essays, procured from a
circulating library, and am filled with gratitude for their soothing
influence. The following passage from his essay on “Beauty” will
recall the conversation we had at our last meeting—our day in the
country: “Nature has a magic for many of us—that is to say, a secret
power that strikes across our lives at intervals, with a message from
an unknown region. And this message is aroused by symbols; a tree,
a flash of light on lonely clouds, a flower, a stream—simple things
that we have seen a thousand times—have sometimes the power to
cast a spell over our spirit, and to bring something that is great and
incommunicable near us. This must be called magic, for it is not a
thing which can be explained by ordinary laws, or defined in precise
terms; but the spell is there, real, insistent, undeniable; it seems to
make a bridge for the spirit to pass into a far-off, dimly apprehended
region; it gives us a sense of great issues and remote visions; it
leaves us with a longing which has no mortal fulfilment.”’
‘I mention this,’ the letter continues, ‘because it seems to me to lead
to certain deep issues of life about which I have seldom spoken. I
have always felt a certain diffidence in touching upon matters
relating to the soul and the life hereafter. Yet, I have not let others do
all the thinking. I have had my own thoughts, my own visions. But,
after all, refined speculations are of little use if there be not some
tangible belief at the back of them. I like the passage just quoted,
and I like the author’s reference, in another part of the volume, to the
guarded city of life. But I think the following passage makes the
strongest appeal, for all may participate in the deep yet simple
feelings expressed: “What are the thoughts of the mighty unresting
heart, to whose vastness and agelessness the whole mass of these
flying and glowing suns are but as a handful of dust that a boy flings
upon the air? How has He set me here, a tiny moving atom, yet more
sure of my own identity than I am of all the vast panorama of things
which lie outside of me? Has He, indeed, a tender and patient
thought of me, the frail creature whom He has moulded and made? I
do not doubt it; I look upon the star-sown spaces, and the old
aspiration rises in my heart, ‘Oh, that I knew where I might find Him!
that I might come into His presence!’ How would I go, like a tired and
sorrowful child to his father’s knee, to be comforted and encouraged,
in perfect trust and love, to be raised in His arms, to be held to His
heart! He would but look in my face, and I should understand without
a question, without a word.”’
When I think of this passage and others which were included in
letters written by my friend during his illness, I see clearly that he
must have realized that he stood on the brink of the unknown. But no
fears were expressed. Indeed, I gathered nothing from his letters
regarding his physical condition. He made no mention of sickness or
pain, dropped no hint of weariness. On the contrary, the letters of
which I speak struck a deeper and truer note of cheerfulness and
courage than any previous communications from his hand. I like to
think that he continued, as of old, to speak of his rose-coloured
spectacles, his point of view. ‘The secret of a happy life,’ he remarks,
in the letter from which I have just quoted, ‘consists in immediately
clearing away the specks of dust which are so apt to fall upon one’s
rose-coloured spectacles, the little annoyances, the petty worries,
the hundred and one little dark specks which I leave you to name at
your leisure.’
Then follows a deeper note, taken, I think, from Epictetus:
‘Happiness is not in strength, or wealth or power, or all three. It lies in
ourselves, in true freedom, in the conquest of every ignoble fear, in
perfect self-government, in a power of contentment and peace, the
even flow of life, even in poverty, exile, disease, and the very valley
of the shadow of death.’
‘So you see,’ my friend continues, ‘there are also dark fogs and thick
mists against which the would-be cheerful man must contend—deep
trials compared to which our daily petty annoyances are, indeed, but
specks of dust. But these, too, may be overcome. The truth is “the
cheerful life is neither a matter of circumstance nor of temperament.
It is a gift of God, and we can covet no better gift. The black hag of
care can no longer sit on the shoulder of the man whose
cheerfulness is the child of reason, not of impulse; whose heart is
light because he can trust, not because the sky is blue and the world
smiling.”’
I wish I could give you some account, from personal knowledge, of
the way my friend spent his last days. This I cannot do, for many
miles stood between us. But I am told by those who nursed him that
up till the end his mind retained its clearness and vigour; that he
never ceased to take an interest in his surroundings, in the great
world outside his little room, in the many ill-favoured ones whom he
had befriended.
Close by my side stands a shelf upon which are stored a number of
volumes from his library. They are typical of his treasured collection,
some of the best of the world’s best books, each volume showing
signs of much reading and meditation, each page bearing marginal
notes—original observations and thoughts from other sources,
showing how one great writer differed from others, or, in the main,
was of like opinion with his contemporaries. Many of the
observations seem to me to be remarkably fresh and interesting—
quite simple, it is true, but of the type of simplicity that captivates.
I shall hope to set down some of these, together with the passages
to which they refer. Here is one example, which will serve to convey
an idea of my friend’s manner of commenting upon an author’s
words. The passage in point reads thus: ‘When thou hast been
compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in a manner, quickly
return to thyself, and do not remain out of tune longer than the
compulsion lasts; for thou wilt have more mastery over the harmony
by continually recurring to it.’ By the side of this, written in lead
pencil, are the following words: ‘Might not human life be compared to
an orchestra, composed of all kinds of instruments? I mean that
each of our natures is, so to say, an instrument, some more pleasing
and, seemingly, more useful than others; but of equal value when
played in accord with the combined orchestra. And if we, at any time,
drop out of him, is it not because we have failed to give our attention
to the Great Conductor of all?’
They tell me that towards the end he referred repeatedly to the help
he had derived from keeping his spiritual vision clear, his faith
unclouded. So far as I can gather, his closing words were these:
‘Faith kept in lively exercise can make roses spring out of the midst
of thorns, and change the briers of the wilderness into the fruit-trees
of Paradise.’
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