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Explain why blending the emic and etic perspectives is a challenging paradox.

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An example of the participant-as-observer includes

A) joining a sorority or fraternity to study initiation rituals without revealing your identity as a researcher.
B) telling people you're a spy to find out how they react.
C) telling a motorcycle gang that you are a researcher and would like to ride with them for a year to understand their interaction patterns.
D) being a newspaper reporter who interviews union workers to learn about recent strike efforts.

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An advantage of qualitative research is that

Feminist studies aim to generate findings that can be used to improve the well being of women in an historically male dominated society.

Field notes should record what you "know happened," NOT what you "think" has happened.

Using the life-history method,researchers ask open-ended questions to discover how participants in a study understand the significant events and meanings in their own lives.

Which of the following contemporary positivist strategies is recommended for enhancing the rigor of qualitative studies?

The standards for appraising the trustworthiness of qualitative research are the same regardless of one's epistemological paradigm.

Describe how grounded theory can be used in conjunction with ethnography.

Ethnography focuses on providing detailed,accurate descriptions of the way people in a particular culture live and the way they interpret the meanings of things.

In comparison to surveys,qualitative research is

Select a research topic.Describe how a complete participant,a participant-as-observer,an observer-as-participant,and a complete observer might study that subject.

Due to their similarity,it is relatively easy,and not paradoxical,to blend the emic and etic perspectives in qualitative observation.

Qualitative researchers should NEVER participate as an actor in the events under study.