Reading Control 3 - Themes 6 and 7

Sort the following characteristics into Qualitative or Quantitative research

Groups:

(a) Qualitative Research

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(b) Quantitative Research

• abstracts reality to create ideals

• vertical communication

• communicates with the subject of study

• finished results can be questioned

• results can be generalized, granting external validity

• indefinite questions

• verifiable answers

• creates general results

• generates substantives theories for internal validity

• proves theories and hypothesis

• horizontal communication

• generates material knowledge of reality through experience

• results can't be generalized to the population

Method based on direct, personal observation, for extended periods of time

• Cultural Research

• Ethnography

• Fieldwork

• Monograph

Critical investigation and study of cultural subjects to discover or corroborate facts and hypothesis through anthropological studies

• Cultural Research

• Ethnography

• Fieldwork

• Monograph

Document which gathers as much information as possible about a topic.

• Cultural Research

• Ethnography

• Fieldwork

• Monograph

Defined as a "research strategy to study societies with greater cultural uniformity and less social differentiation than those prevailing in modern, large, and industrialized nations"

• Cultural Research

• Ethnography

• Fieldwork

• Monograph

Order the steps to follow while writing a monograph

• Selection and delimitation of the topic

• Development and edition of drafts

• Development of a tentative structure of the work

• Search and recollection of information

• Debugging of information according to the tentative structure

All of these are challenges that anthropologist doing fieldwork face, except for...

• ethnocentrism

• language fluidity

• lack of empathy

• mistrust from the community

Match the situation with the ethnographic technique used.

• Life history

• Looking through an elder citizen's photos to see how the city has changed in the last 50 years.

• Testimony

• Reading newspapers published in 1962 to find journalistic accounts of "El Carnaval del Corcholatazo"

• Semi-structured interview

• Talking to one of the survivors of the plane crash in the Andes in 1972 to ask questions about the incident and the impact in his life

• Documents

• Speaking to a famous actor about their professional trajectory, discussing their work and experiences on set

• Pictures and Videos

• Collecting different statements from people who were in La Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco in October 2nd, 1968, as well as from close people to them.

Betty is a gender studies researcher, and one of the themes she's more passionate about is the salary gap between man and woman. Noticing that her topic is too broad, she decides to focus on the existent gap in her hometown. What step of her monograph is she in?

• Selection and delimitation of topic

• Development of a tentative structure of the work

• Search and recollection of information

• Reorganization of information

While doing their research on the LGBT+ legislation in Mazatlán, Sam found out that transgender women are not allowed to compete for the title of Queen in Mardi Grass. Outraged, they decide to change the topic of their research into the marginalization of transgender women in Mazatlán. What step of their monograph are they in?

• Selection and delimitation of topic

• Development of a tentative structure of the work

• Search and recollection of information

• Reorganization of structure