Research Methods

Question 1

Who researched ethnicity and mental health?

Accepted Answer

Nazroo (1997)

Question 2

Who argues that gatekeepers are the 'unsung heroes of ethnography'?

Accepted Answer

Fielding (2001)

Question 3

Statistics are expensive and hard to access

Accepted Answer

False

Question 4

What research method did Quirk and Lelliott (2002) use?

Accepted Answer

Participant Observation

Question 5

Closed questionnaires involve the respondent writing about what they feel or have experienced

Accepted Answer

False

Question 6

A weakness of statistics is that they may not represent the whole picture

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

What is the name of the sociologist who was murdered whilst investigating drug crime?

Accepted Answer

Ken Pryce

Question 8

Content analysis is cheap

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

A strength of questionnaires is that postal questionnnaires can research a geographically dispersed population

Accepted Answer

True

Question 10

Direct observation involves the researcher immersing themselves in a culture

Accepted Answer

False

Question 11

What religious background did the participants in Ingram's 2009 study come from?

Accepted Answer

Catholic

Question 12

Unstructured interviews will have more participants than surveys

Accepted Answer

False

Question 13

What is the biggest problem with overt participant observation?

Accepted Answer

Researcher effect

Question 14

Which of these TV shows was studied by Wood & Skeggs (2012)?

Accepted Answer

The Only Way is Essex, Wife Swap

Question 15

Unstructured interviews are cheap

Accepted Answer

False

Question 16

Structured interviews are flexible

Accepted Answer

False

Question 17

Unstructured interviews are good for studying vulnerable groups

Accepted Answer

True

Question 18

Who argued that a problem with interviews is demand characteristics?

Accepted Answer

Gomm (2004)

Question 19

Where are the most successful interviews carried out?

Accepted Answer

Private

Question 20

What is the name for studies that study people over a long period of time?

Accepted Answer

Longitudinal

Question 21

Who researched media coverage of Amanda Knox?

Accepted Answer

Freyenberger (2013)

Question 22

A strength of questionnaires is that many people can't be bothered to reply

Accepted Answer

False

Question 23

What type of interview is a guided conversation?

Accepted Answer

Unstructured

Question 24

Who points out that what people say and what they do are actually very different?

Accepted Answer

Interpretivists

Question 25

Interviewing is a cheap method

Accepted Answer

False

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