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Higher Education

Social Research Methods, Fourth Canadian Edition: Chapter 11

Instructions: For each question, click on the radio button beside your answer. When you have completed the entire quiz, click the Submit my answers button at the bottom of the page to receive your results.

Question 1:


a) establishing a clear measure of concepts
b) the interviewee?s perspectives and concerns
c) ensuring a standardized interview format
d) preventing interviewees from going off on a tangent

Question 2:


a) the interviewer may only have a single question to start the process
b) the process is ultimately a conversation
c) the process is designed to bring out the issues and social interactions stemming from the experience of the interviewee, as interpreted by the interviewee
d) there is an ordered set of questions that must be followed

Question 3:


a) the interviewer believes that any guide will impact what the interviewees say
b) there is a clear focus on a topic of interest
c) more than one interviewer is used
d) there are several interviewees

Question 4:


a) structuring biography
b) telling a story
c) responding to requests for an interview
d) establishing strict biographical points

Question 5:


a) establish a clear and concise order to follow for questioning
b) avoid personal questions
c) ensure directed questions
d) avoid leading questions

Question 6:


a) is aimed at identifying how historical events unfold and interact with personal life stories
b) cannot be used for multiple subject research projects
c) cannot be used for multiple location research projects
d) prevents bias caused by memory lapses and distortions

Question 7:


a) posing too many questions
b) making sure the interviewee does not go into too much detail when answering
c) ending the interview by providing the interviewee with a final reflection of what the interviewee said
d) ensuring that anxiety is not brought to the interviewee as a result of the research

Question 8:


a) questions on relationships
b) specifying questions
c) probing questions
d) conflictual questions

Question 9:


a) is not recommended for qualitative interviews
b) is useful because it provides an opportunity for secondary analysis by other researchers
c) limits the use of data because of confidentiality agreements
d) must always be transcribed in its entirety

Question 10:


a) it takes to two to three hours to transcribe one hour of interview
b) transcription must be conducted by a trained transcriber
c) complications arise as a result of hanging around, making observations, and taking notes
d) it is the time-consuming process that should be done in parallel with gathering more data

Question 11:


a) are part of a structured approach to gathering evidence
b) must be conducted with groups of no more than three people
c) are a method for exploring one another?s viewpoints in supportive manner
d) are a naturalistic approach that mirrors processes that are part of normal social life

Question 12:


a) pointing out controversy
b) refocusing the group
c) understanding assumptions
d) comparing others

Question 13:


a) complimentary and argumentative
b) critical and compromising
c) flexible and rigid
d) authentic and artificial

Question 14:


a) increased control over the process
b) that individual personality traits can be better managed in groups
c) that developing themes are easier to link to overlapping patterns of interaction
d) recognizing and responding to issues related to group cohesion

Question 15:


a) has a close, experiential view of the subjects? perspective
b) has wider coverage of researched people
c) tends to expose deviant activities easier
d) occurs in a natural setting

Question 16:


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b) FALSE

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b) FALSE

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Question 28:


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Question 29:


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Question 30:


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