5 qualitative approaches

1. The focus of a case study can be:

• A. A place

• B. A person

• C. An event

• D. All of the above

3. The questions that a case study answers are:

• A. What and where

• B. How and who

• C. Why and how

• D. When and why

4. A characteristic of the case study is:

• A. The in-depth study of social groups.

• B. The relevance of analyzing processes rather than single pieces of data

• C. The creation of stories about the people under study

• D. The proposal of studies to take place in the classroom

5. If the focus of the case study is a person, we should state why this person is relevant to the study and consider his or her contextual conditions.

• - True

• - False

Which is NOT the characteristic of Ethnographic Research?

• the research takes a relative long time

• carried out in the context in which the subjects normally live and work

• questions or hypothesis emerge before the course of investigation

• the researcher does not try to control or handle the phenomenon

Ethnographic instruments are:

• Observation, Interview, Questionnaires, Video & Audio Taping

• Observation, Interview, Video & Audio Taping, Field-note

• Observation, Survey, Video & Audio Taping, Field-note

Ethnographic research (also called ethnography) is the study of the _____ and _____in their natural settings. 

• Social patterns and community perspectives  

• Economic patterns and population perspectives  

• Cultural patterns and participants perspectives  

• Political patterns and public perspectives  

The most important characteristic to take into account when conducting ethnographic research is culture? 

• TRUE

• FALSE

 What is the goal of ethnographic research? 

• To behave, think and talk; and develop a portrait of a person. 

• To describe and understand what are happening in various contexts. 

• To describe, analyze, and interpret the culture of a group. 

• To study attitudes, values, beliefs, and practices of a person. 

Complete: _________ and___________ became standard data collection procedures in an ethnographic design. 

• Observations and questionnaires 

• Survey and interviews 

• Observations and interviews 

• Questionnaires and survey.