A Brief Quiz on Chapter 7

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1 Fieldwork is the study of people acting in the natural courses of their daily lives. 2 Participant observation is fieldwork in which researchers study groups by participating as third party independent observers. 3 Participant observation studies are best used when a setting has been so explored that formal hypotheses have been developed. 4 Grounded theory is a set of explanations that has immediate relevance to a specific field setting under investigation. 5 In all participant observer studies, the researcher gathers data while taking part in the activities of a group--while concealing his or her research identity. 6 In unobtrusive measurement, accretions are evidence of the wear or use of objects. 7 Ethnography is research in which the investigator participates, overtly or covertly, in people's lives for an extended period of time. 8 Ethnomethodology (a.k.a. the 'new ethnography') is the study of extraordinary or traumatic events that affect everyday life. 9 Community studies examine a whole community of people, usually in a small town or village, or possibly as part of a larger town. 10 he interpretive approach is a method that identifies communicators' interactions to determine such things as the situations in which people find themselves, the structures within which they work, and the practical features of their world.