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Chapter 11: Qualitative Data Analysis
Multiple Choice
1. Systematic theory developed inductively, based on observations that are summarized into conceptual categories, reevaluated in the research setting, and gradually refined and linked to other conceptual categories is referred to as ______ theory.
a. inductive
b. grounded
c. qualitative
d. visual
Learning Objective: 11.2: Compare and contrast the various approaches to qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Grounded Theory
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. ______ knowledge refers to a credible sense of understanding of social processes that reflects the researcher’s awareness of participants’ actions.
a. Tacit
b. Inductive
c. True
d. Qualitative
Learning Objective: 11.2: Compare and contrast the various approaches to qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. Which of the following is a common form of text used in qualitative analysis?
a. statistical reports
b. field notes
c. pictures
d. pictograms
Learning Objective: 11.1: Describe some of the features of qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Features of Qualitative Data Analysis
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. ______oriented methods attempt to understand a phenomenon from the standpoint of the participants.
a. Case-
b. Qualitative-
c. Visual-
d. Conversation
Learning Objective: 11.2: Compare and contrast the various approaches to qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Case-Oriented Understanding
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. Tacit knowledge is best defined as ______.
a. initial responses to observations, made when analyzing field notes
b. information that key informants deliberately withhold from intensive interviews
c. careful considerations of the role of the qualitative researcher in influencing the field site
d. largely unarticulated, contextual understandings of social processes
Learning Objective: 11.5: Discuss the ways in which computer-aided qualitative data analysis can facilitate research.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Corroboration and Legitimization of Conclusions
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. Grounded theory requires analysts to do which of the following?
a. induce theory from observations
b. test hypotheses
c. generate hypotheses from theories
d. chart conceptual connections
Learning Objective: 11.2: Compare and contrast the various approaches to qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Grounded Theory
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. What is the focus of conversation analysis?
a. how people form identities
b. how people create reality
c. how people engage in interaction
d. how researchers affect their own research
Learning Objective: 11.2: Compare and contrast the various approaches to qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Conversation Analysis
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. Which of the following is a systematic theory that is based on observations?
a. pseudo-inductive theory
b. grounded theory
c. empirical theory
d. iterative theory
Learning Objective: 11.2: Compare and contrast the various approaches to qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Grounded Theory
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. Which of the following is true regarding computer-assisted qualitative data analysis?
a. Most programs prevent multiple codes being assigned to text.
b. Most programs cannot generate the frequencies of specified codes.
c. Most programs can assign codes based on key words.
d. Most programs can identify how context changes word use.
Learning Objective: 11.5: Discuss the ways in which computer-aided qualitative data analysis can facilitate research.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. What is the focus of narrative analysis?
a. the story itself
b. engaging participants in conversation
c. multiple perspectives on the role of the narrator
d. the interpretation of meaning
Learning Objective: 11.1: Describe some of the features of qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Narrative Analysis
Difficulty Level: Easy
11. Dr. Venzia examined how people greeted one another on the street by paying careful attention to their verbal exchanges. This type of research is probably ______.
a. oral history
b. narrative analysis
c. ethnography
d. conversation analysis
Learning Objective: 11.2: Compare and contrast the various approaches to qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Conversation Analysis
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. Which type of ethnomethodological research concentrates on talk?
a. qualitative comparative analysis
b. narrative analysis
c. ethnography
d. conversation analysis
Learning Objective:11.4: Provide examples of systematic data observation.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Conversation Analysis
Difficulty Level: Easy
13. Which of the following is a concern regarding ethics in qualitative data analysis?
a. peer review
b. confidentiality
c. compensation
d. hypothesis
Learning Objective: 11.6: List at least four ethical issues that should be given special attention in qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Ethics in Qualitative Data Analysis
Difficulty Level: Easy
14. Sociologists developing methods to learn how others “see” the social world and to create images for further study are concerned with ______.
a. media sociology
b. narrative analysis
c. visual sociology
d. photography
Learning Objective: 11.3: Describe how visual sociologists use photographs to analyze data.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Visual Sociology
Difficulty Level: Easy
15. A researcher has concerns about whether their findings will be used appropriately. This represents which ethical concern?
a. research integrity and quality
b. ownership of data and conclusions
c. intervention and advocacy
d. use and misuse of results
Learning Objective: 11.6: List at least four ethical issues that should be given special attention in qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Ethics in Qualitative Data Analysis
Difficulty Level: Easy
16. A form of qualitative analysis in which the analyst focuses on how respondents impose order on the flow of experience in their lives and thus makes sense of events in which they have participated is known as ______ analysis.
a. narrative
b. visual
c. experimental
d. conversational
Learning Objective: 11.2: Compare and contrast the various approaches to qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Narrative Analysis
Difficulty Level: Medium
17. The focus on ______ is the most important feature of qualitative analysis.
a. numerical data
b. text data
c. existing literature
d. personal accounts
Learning Objective: 11.1: Describe some of the features of qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Features of Qualitative Data Analysis
Difficulty Level: Easy
18. Conversation analysis is a qualitative method that analyzes the sequence and details of conversational text in order to understand ______.
a. a quantitative phenomenon
b. how social reality is constructed
c. patterns of speech
d. the story itself
Learning Objective: 11.1: Describe some of the features of qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Conversation Analysis
Difficulty Level: Medium
19. An understanding of social processes in a group that accurately reflects the standpoint of participants is known as a ______ understanding.
a. case-oriented
b. project based
c. quantitative
d. rational choice
Learning Objective: 11.5: Discuss the ways in which computer-aided qualitative data analysis can facilitate research.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Case-Oriented Understanding
Difficulty Level: Medium
20. A qualitative researcher’s conclusions should be assessed by their ability to provide a ______ for some aspect of social life.
a. frequency distribution
b. visual explanation
c. credible explanation
d. detailed analysis
Learning Objective: 11.1: Describe some of the features of qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Corroboration and Legitimization of Conclusions
Difficulty Level: Medium
21. Data collection should not begin unless the researcher has which of the following?
a. an endorsement from an academic institution
b. a fully developed causal explanation
c. a plan that others see as likely to produce useful knowledge
d. evidence to suggest findings will be valid
Learning Objective: 11.6: List at least four ethical issues that should be given special attention in qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Ethics in Qualitative Data Analysis
Difficulty Level: Medium
22. Commitment and rigor are important metrics for assessing the quality of research and are indicated by ______.
a. awareness of participant culture
b. generating useful knowledge
c. interpretations of data
d. in-depth engagement with the topic
Learning Objective: 11.1: Describe some of the features of qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Corroboration and Legitimization of Conclusions
Difficulty Level: Medium
23. A researcher using ______ develops a standard form on which to record variation within the observed setting.
a. visual sociology
b. systemic observation
c. computer-aided analysis
d. conversation analysis
Learning Objective: 11.4: Provide examples of systematic data observation.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Systematic Observation
Difficulty Level: Easy
24. Sociological research in which the social world is “observed” and interpreted through photographs, films, and other images is known as ______.
a. photo journalism
b. tacit knowledge
c. systematic grounded theory
d. visual sociology
Learning Objective: 11.4: Provide examples of systematic data observation.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Visual Sociology
Difficulty Level: Easy
25. Which of the followings statements is true about theory development?
a. It occurs before data is collected.
b. It occurs after data is collected and analyzed.
c. It is a continual process.
d. It occurs as the research question is finalized.
Learning Objective: 11.2: Compare and contrast the various approaches to qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Grounded Theory
Difficulty Level: Hard
26. ______ is a method of using photography to engage research participants in explaining how they have made sense of their social worlds.
a. Photo voice
b. Video recording
c. Narrative photography
d. Qualitative research
Learning Objective: 11.3: Describe how visual sociologists use photographs to analyze data.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Visual Sociology
Difficulty Level: Medium
27. Qualitative data analyses describe textual data in ways that captures the people who produced the text on their own terms rather than ______.
a. in terms of predefined measures and hypotheses.
b. in descriptive analysis
c. through inductive measures
d. creating usable research findings
Learning Objective: 11.1: Describe some of the features of qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Features of Qualitative Data Analysis
Difficulty Level: Medium
28. The focus on ______ make qualitative data analysis a valuable supplement to analyses of quantitative data.
a. meaning and in-depth study
b. facts and figures
c. casual observations
d. institutional settings
Learning Objective: 11.1: Describe some of the features of qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Features of Qualitative Data Analysis
Difficulty Level: Medium
29. Coding text requires ______.
a. categorizing particular text segments
b. embedding text in the original document
c. using computer-assisted analysis
d. frequency distributions
Learning Objective: 11.1: Describe some of the features of qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis
Difficulty Level: Medium
30. At what point in the research process should a researcher consider and evaluate potential harm to participants?
a. before research is collected
b. throughout all points of the process
c. after conclusions are drawn
d. during the research design phase
Learning Objective: 11.6: List at least four ethical issues that should be given special attention in qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Ethics in Qualitative Data Analysis
Difficulty Level: Medium
31. Where does the analysis of qualitative research notes first take place?
a. laboratory
b. analysis phase
c. field
d. researchers preferred location
Learning Objective: 11.1: Describe some of the features of qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Techniques of Qualitative Data Analysis
Difficulty Level: Easy
32. Which of the following techniques is used in the qualitative data analysis process?
a. reflection on the researcher’s role
b. publication of finings
c. re-testing
d. coding results
Learning Objective: 11.1: Describe some of the features of qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Techniques of Qualitative Data Analysis
Difficulty Level: Easy
33. What is the first analytic step for qualitative researchers?
a. coding
b. conversation analysis
c. documentation
d. analysis
Learning Objective: 11.1: Describe some of the features of qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Documentation
Difficulty Level: Easy
34. ______ capture(s) the meaning shared among text segments that have been indicated with the same or closely related labels.
a. Thematic coding
b. Interpretive coding
c. Field notes
d. A matrix
Learning Objective: 11.1: Describe some of the features of qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Coding: Organization, Categorization, and Condensation
Difficulty Level: Easy
35. A(n) ______ can facilitate the coding and categorization process.
a. matrix
b. interpretative key
c. bar chart
d. reexamination
Learning Objective: 11.1: Describe some of the features of qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Coding: Organization, Categorization, and Condensation
Difficulty Level: Easy
36. Which of the following is one of Lucy Yardley’s (2017) criteria for assessing the quality of quantitative research?
a. tacit knowledge
b. timeliness
c. importance
d. spontaneity
Learning Objective: 11.2: Compare and contrast the various approaches to qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Corroboration and Legitimization of Conclusions
Difficulty Level: Medium
37. By being ______ researchers can help others determine whether their perspectives influenced their conclusions.
a. deductive
b. reflexive
c. proprietary
d. defensive
Learning Objective: 11.6: List at least four ethical issues that should be given special attention in qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Corroboration and Legitimization of Conclusions
Difficulty Level: Medium
38. When should researchers leading PAR/CBPR projects work out data ownership agreements?
a. in advance of data collection
b. after data is collected
c. before community partners are recruited
d. only when publishing results
Learning Objective: 11.5: Discuss the ways in which computer-aided qualitative data analysis can facilitate research.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Ethics in Qualitative Data Analysis
Difficulty Level: Medium
39. Although PAR/CBPR projects are designed to help solve local problems, harm might occur in which of the following situations?
a. The researcher shares too much information with participants.
b. Findings cast elements of the community in an unfavorable light.
c. Analysis of data has begun while working in the field.
d. Researcher partners are allowed access to the results.
Learning Objective: 11.5: Discuss the ways in which computer-aided qualitative data analysis can facilitate research.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Ethics in Qualitative Data Analysis
Difficulty Level: Medium
40. Which of the following statements is true about qualitative data analysis?
a. The variety of approaches makes it difficult to provide a consistent set of criteria for interpreting their quality.
b. The variety of approaches makes it easy to ascertain if best practices have been followed by participants.
c. The variety of approaches makes it unnecessary to review and assess findings for reliability.
d. The variety of approaches makes it impossible to develop generalizable findings.
Learning Objective: 11.5: Discuss the ways in which computer-aided qualitative data analysis can facilitate research.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Ethics in Qualitative Data Analysis
Difficulty Level: Medium
True/False
1. A researcher’s preferences and experiences will influence which method of analysis is chosen.
Learning Objective: 11.2: Compare and contrast the various approaches to qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Alternatives in Quantitative Data Analysis
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. Narrative analysis focuses attention on moment-by-moment interchange, much like conversation analysis.
Learning Objective: 11.4: Provide examples of systematic data observation.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Narrative Analysis
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. Grounded theorists summarize observations into conceptual categories and tests the coherence of these categories directly in the research setting with more observations.
Learning Objective: 11.2: Compare and contrast the various approaches to qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Grounded Theory
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. Unlike those using written text, the visual sociologist does not need to be sensitive to the ways in which a photograph or film “constructs” the reality that it depicts.
Learning Objective: 11.3: Describe how visual sociologists use photographs to analyze data.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Visual Sociology
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. The photo voice method enriches the researcher’s interpretation of the social world as it engages participants’ as part of the research team themselves.
Learning Objective: 11.3: Describe how visual sociologists use photographs to analyze data.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Visual Sociology
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. Quantitative data analysts, more often than qualitative researchers, display real sensitivity to how a social situation or process is interpreted from a particular background and set of values and not simply based on the situation itself.
Learning Objective: 11.1: Describe some of the features of qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Reflection on the Researcher’s Role
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. Computer programs designed for qualitative data analysis test different hypotheses.
Learning Objective: 11.5: Discuss the ways in which computer-aided qualitative data analysis can facilitate research.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. There are no universal standards for evaluating the validity or authenticity of conclusions in a qualitative study.
Learning Objective: 11.1: Describe some of the features of qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Corroboration and Legitimization of Conclusions
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. Confidence in the conclusions from a field research study is strengthened by an honest and informative account about how the researcher interacted with subjects in the field.
Learning Objective: 11.1: Describe some of the features of qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Corroboration and Legitimization of Conclusions
Difficulty Level: Easy
10. Research participants should not offer suggestions on how to improve your study.
Learning Objective: 11.6: List at least four ethical issues that should be given special attention in qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Ethics in Qualitative Data Analysis
Difficulty Level: Easy
Short Answer
1. How is visual sociology different from other forms of qualitative analysis? Propose a research project that would use visual sociology to understand the social world.
Learning Objective: 11.3: Describe how visual sociologists use photographs to analyze data.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Visual Sociology
Difficulty Level: Hard
2. What are the advantages of using computer programs to assist in qualitative analysis? Generally outline how these programs operate and explain how they are designed to facilitate analysis and reporting of qualitative data.
Learning Objective: 11.5: Discuss the ways in which computer-aided qualitative data analysis can facilitate research.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. Explain how qualitative data analysis differs from quantitative data analysis.
Learning Objective: 11.1: Describe some of the features of qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Features of Qualitative Data Analysis
Difficulty Level: Hard
4. Describe grounded theory. How does it compare to deductive research?
Learning Objective: 11.2: Compare and contrast the various approaches to qualitative data analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Grounded Theory
Difficulty Level: Medium
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