Interviewing

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QUESTION 1
Qualitative interviewing is the numerical examination and interpretation of data collected through surveys. the non-numerical examination and interpretation of data collected through one-on-one interviews. the non-numerical examination and interpretation of data collected through focus groups. the numerical examination and interpretation of data collected through one-on-one interviews. the non-numerical examination and interpretation of data collected through journalistic interviews.

QUESTION 2
Qualitative interviewing typically seeks to in social life. *the exact words are necessary to receive credit a social phenomenon by exploring

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QUESTION 3 0.25 points
Good ways to conduct qualitative interviews include: with their partner or spouse, so that they tell the truth. with your phone on speaker, so your family can hear what the interviewee is saying. any way the interviewee feels comfortable, as long as it is safe for you and them and approved by the IRB. with small children around, so that they don’t curse or say anything offensive.

QUESTION 4
Scenario: You have your IRB-approved interview questions and are going through them one by one. Then your interviewee says something you don’t fully understand. It is not only appropriate, but also important that you ask a follow-up question so they have an opportunity to elaborate.

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Scenario: You are a researcher and your interviewee says something that is really shocking personal information about themselves. They did something that, while not criminal, was what you consider to be immoral. At that moment you think to yourself, “Wow, I can’t believe they told me that and think I’d be okay with it. This person is terrible, and I want to tell them how bad they are.” What should you do? Tell the interviewee that you’d prefer if they do not discuss that kind of behavior, as immorality will taint your study. Change the subject as quickly as possible. Sociologists are not interested at all in “deviant” behavior so it is a waste of time to talk about it. Leave the interview immediately. Since you can no longer be rational about the interview, you are no longer qualified to analyze the data. Treat them with empathy, even if you don’t agree with it. Perhaps you would not do what they did, but your interviewee is certainly not the first person to do it and certainly not the last, and it is a social researcher’s job to understand and explain, not to judge.

QUESTION 6 0.25 points
Concrete observations are almost always more useful than a respondent’s generalizations. True False
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QUESTION 7 0.5 points
Some of the issues that can arise in qualitative interviewing include: Ethical considerations, like dehumanizing respondents. Insufficient reflexivity, when researchers act as if they are capturing the only reality, and as if their own presence has no effect on the findings. Respondent credibility, when the interviewee does not tell the whole truth or even lies about significant information. Investigator bias, when the researcher is consciously or consciously trying to find a theme in their research. All of the above.

QUESTION 8 0.5 points
One issue in qualitative interviewing that is nearly unavoidable is that, there may be invisible underlying differences between those people who are willing to disclose their secrets by volunteering to be interviewed, and those people who are not willing to do so, so they do not volunteer.

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QUESTION 9 0.5 points
Jimenez explains that the Mexican-origin population is exceptional because the group is: 1. colonized and immigrant 2. part of an old immigrant population and a new one 3. part of the established native-born population and the foreign-born 4. legally entitled to live in the area of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo, because it was actually Mexico until 1848 5. Answers 1, 2, and 3 6. All of the above

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