Attempting to understand what happened during the Jim Jones Guyana incidence in which followers were led to commit group suicide is an example of
a. phenomenology.
c. historical research.
b. participant observation.
d. narrative research.
Ques. 2Which of the following is
not a commonality between historical and phenomenological research?
a. the use of first-hand experiences or stories
b. the focus on multiple realties.
c. the chronological sequencing of events.
d. the focus on human and behavioral phenomena.
Ques. 3Qualitative research has its roots in the discipline(s) of
a. Sociology and Anthropology
b. History
c. Medicine
d. a & b
e. b & c
Ques. 4What of the following is NOT the purpose of qualitative research?
a. To identify emergence or recurrent patterns or themes.
b. To provide an in-depth lived explanation of an event or phenomenon.
c. To test for relationships between variables in a study.
d. To build a theory inductively.
Ques. 5The main advantage of historical research over phenomenology is that
a. the former is better at probing beyond that is known about a phenomenon.
b. the former is not affected by researchers biases.
c. the former is not affected by the researcher-subject interaction biases.
d. the latter is better at identifying commonalities in the data gathered.
Ques. 6What of the following is an important difference between historical research and phenomenology?
a. One has roots in the humanities and the other in the social sciences.
b. One collects information from people with first-hand experience or knowledge about a particular topic whereas the other does not.
c. One uses content analysis while the other does not.
d. One is better at explaining human behaviors while the other is better at explaining human attitudes.
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