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Social Research Methods 4th Edition Alan Bryman - Solutions
Have you explained the limitations of your study?
Do your conclusions clearly allow the reader to establish what your research contributes to the literature?
If you have presented tables and/or fi gures, are they commented upon in your discussion?
If you have presented tables and/or fi gures, are they properly labelled with a title and number?
Are the interpretations of the data that you offer fully supported with tables, fi gures, or segments from transcripts?
Does your discussion of your fi ndings show how they shed light on the literature that you presented?
Does your discussion of your fi ndings show how they relate to your research questions?
Have you presented your data in a manner that relates to your research questions?
Have you clearly outlined your research design and your research methods, including:why you chose a particular research design?why you chose a particular research method?how you selected your research participants?whether there were any issues to do with cooperation (for example, response
Is your discussion of the literature critical and organized so that it is not just a summary of what you have read?
Have you clearly indicated how the literature you have read relates to your research questions?
Have you clearly specifi ed your research questions?
What ethical issues are raised by using the Internet as a method of data collection?
Are response rates in online surveys worse or better than in traditional surveys?Ethical considerations in Internet research
Do sampling problems render online social surveys too problematic to warrant serious consideration?
Are there any special circumstances in which embedded email questionnaires will be more likely to be effective than attached questionnaires?
What is the signifi cance of the distinction between email and Web surveys?
To what extent does the absence of direct contact mean that the online interview cannot be a true interview?Online social surveys
Can online personal interviews really be personal interviews?
How different is the role of the moderator in online, as against face-to-face, focus groups?Qualitative research using online personal interviews
What is the signifi cance of the distinction between synchronous and asynchronous focus groups?
Are ethnographies of the Internet really ethnographic?Qualitative research using online focus groups
How does ethnography need to be adapted in order to collect data on the use of the Internet?
What is the difference between Web-based and communication-based research methods?
What disadvantages do they have in comparison to traditional research methods for collecting such data?
What advantages do they have over traditional research methods for collecting such data?
What are the chief ways of collecting data from individuals using the World Wide Web and online communications?
In what ways might the analysis of websites pose particular diffi culties that are less likely to be encountered in the analysis of non-electronic documents?Using the Internet to collect data from individuals
To what extent does the rise of mixed methods research suggest that the paradigm wars are over?
Is mixed methods research necessarily superior to mono-method research?
Why has mixed methods research become more prominent?
Traditionally, qualitative research has been depicted as having a preparatory role in relation to quantitative research. To what extent do the different forms of mixed methods research refl ect this view?
What is the logic of triangulation?
Why might it be useful to distinguish between them?
What are the chief ways in which quantitative and qualitative research have been combined?
What is the signifi cance of priority and sequence as ways of classifying mixed methods research?
What are the main elements of the technical and epistemological versions of the debate about quantitative and qualitative research? What are the implications of these two versions of the debate for mixed methods research?Approaches to mixed methods research
What are the main elements of the embedded methods and paradigm arguments in terms of their implications for the possibility of mixed methods research?Two versions of the debate about quantitative and qualitative research
What is mixed methods research?The argument against mixed methods research
Have you provided details about how you conducted the quantitative and qualitative components(sampling, instrument design and implementation, analysis, etc.)?
Have you demonstrated what is gained by doing mixed methods research?
Have you integrated your quantitative and qualitative fi ndings? Have you shown how they are mutually informative and not treated them as separate?
Have you shown clearly how the research methods you intend to use (if a proposal) or employ (when writing up) relate to your research questions?
When writing up the research, have you made clear your rationale(s) for doing a mixed methods study?
Are you clear in your own mind about why you are doing a mixed methods study? (Do not assume doing mixed methods research is inherently superior.)
Have you built integration of the quantitative and qualitative elements into your plans from the outset?
Have you planned the project as a mixed methods one and not as a project with separate components?
Have you made sure you have all the necessary skills in advance for undertaking all the components of a mixed methods project?
How far is quantifi cation a feature of qualitative research?
Assess the signifi cance of Hodson’s research.Quantifi cation in qualitative research
Assess the signifi cance of ethnostatistics.
What might some of the implications of Gilbert and Mulkay’s (1984) concepts of interpretative repertoires be for the qualitative analysis of quantitative research?
Outline some of the ways in which the quantitative/qualitative contrast may not be as hard and fast as is often supposed.The mutual analysis of quantitative and qualitative research
How far do research methods necessarily carry epistemological and ontological implications?Problems with the quantitative/qualitative contrast
To what extent can some quantitative research be deemed to exhibit the characteristics of constructionism?Research methods and epistemological and ontological considerations
To what extent can some quantitative research be deemed to exhibit the characteristics of interpretivism?Quantitative research and constructionism
To what extent can some qualitative research be deemed to exhibit the characteristics of a natural science model?
Are the natural sciences positivistic?
What is the nature of the link between research methods and epistemology?The natural science model and qualitative research
How do you search for specifi c text?
Why might it be useful to display coding stripes?
How do you go about searching for a single node and the intersection of two nodes?
In NVivo, what is the difference between a document and a memo?
Do nodes have to be set up in advance?
What is in vivo coding?
What is the difference between a hierarchically organized node and a node that has not been hierarchically organized?
What is a node?
To what extent does CAQDAS help with qualitative data analysis?Learning NVivo
Why is CAQDAS controversial?
What are the main points of difference between CAQDAS and quantitative data analysis software like SPSS?
How feasible is it for researchers to analyse qualitative data collected by another researcher?
What is a narrative interview and how far does it differ from other kinds of qualitative interview?Secondary analysis of qualitative data
Can narrative analysis be applied to all kinds of qualitative interview?
How does the emphasis on stories in narrative analysis provide a distinctive approach to the analysis of qualitative data?
To what extent does narrative analysis provide an alternative to data fragmentation?
What are the chief ways of identifying themes in qualitative data?Narrative analysis
How does the Framework approach help with a thematic analysis?
How far is there a codifi ed scheme for conducting thematic analysis?
To what extent does coding result in excessive fragmentation of data?Thematic analysis
What are the main steps in coding?
Is coding associated solely with grounded theory?
What are some of the main criticisms of grounded theory?Basic operations in qualitative data analysis
Charmaz (2000: 519) has written that theoretical sampling ‘represents a defi ning property of grounded theory’. Why do you think she feels this to be the case?
What is the role of memos in grounded theory?
What is the role of coding in grounded theory and what are the different types of coding?
What are the main ingredients of grounded theory?
What makes it a rigorous method?
What are the main ingredients of analytic induction?
What is meant by suggesting that qualitative data are an ‘attractive nuisance’?General strategies of qualitative data analysis
What lessons can be learned from the studies by Phillips and Brown (1993) and by Forster (1994)concerning the potential uses of a hermeneutic approach?
What is a hermeneutic approach to documents?
What is the difference between denotative meaning and connotative meaning?
What is a sign? How central is it to semiotics?
How does qualitative content analysis differ from the kind of content analysis discussed in Chapter 12?
What is thematic analysis?
In what sense can documents provide evidence on which social researchers can draw as data?Interpreting documents
Do Internet documents and other virtual outputs raise special problems in terms of assessing them from the point of view of Scott’s criteria?The reality of documents
How do such documents fare in terms of Scott’s criteria?
What kinds of documents are mass-media outputs?
How do such documents fare in terms of Scott’s criteria?Mass-media outputs
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