Topic
Research methods
Instructions
Suppose you want to know what it is like to live in poverty. Explain how you might conduct a qualitative study using one of the following methods. Indicate how you would find participants and what you would do with them once you find them. In your answer, demonstrate and understanding of the method you choose: an ethnographic study, a phenomenological study, a grounded theory study.
You have been asked to conduct a multiple case study about students who get kicked out of field placement in schools of social work in Michigan. Describe how you would go about collecting your data. In your answer, choose (and explain your use of) one of the following modes of observation : complete observer, participant observer.
Explain the purpose of focus groups and give an example of how one might be used.
Discuss which one of the following research types best fits qualitative research in general: exploratory, explanatory, descriptive. In your answer, use one or both of the following terms: inductive or deductive research.
Write 2 research questions for the following topic: men who are physically abused by their spouses. One of your questions should indicate the use of quantitative methodology and the other should indicate the use of qualitative methodology.
Answer preview
Poverty is a social issue that affects a particular group of people; as such, the best qualitative study to use in such a case is an ethnographic study. An ethnographic study is a method that relied on the up-close, possible participation and personal experience and not merely observing how a particular group lives. Ethnography methodology refers to the tapping of local viewpoints, community and households, as they are funds of knowledge, and it is a means of establishing important categories of human experience up close and at a personal level. The method that I can use in choosing participants in this study is through a focus group.
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