Qual Study Ch2

A bird’s-eye view drawing of the main field site to label and assess its accommodation of furnishings, spatial relationships, and foot traffic.

Analysis of the cultural, national, or mid-range implications of social settings.

An undisclosed researcher identity to participants that provides access to hidden facets of social life when the phenomenon of interest cannot be studied as in depth through other methods.

The researcher’s reflexive stance in relationship to participants.

Individual reflection on one’s relationships with the data, the participants, and even with one’s self as a researcher.

The researcher’s method for watching and listening to people act, react, and interact in natural social settings, most often during everyday matters but sometimes during exceptional circumstances.

How someone does something or solves a problem, often systematic in its approach.

People with the authority to grant permission and facilitate the researcher’s entry into a particular field setting or to conduct a study at all, such as IRBs.

For the first online tutorial, you were asked to go visit a public sport facility. What level of analysis were you engaged in?

Dr. Trussell and Dr. Kerwin are examining Sport Board Governance (decision-making and conflict) in the non-profit sector. Research assistants will attend monthly board meetings with a regional sport organization. During the board meeting they write down not only their observations of participants' actions, reactions, and interactions, but also analytical comments in the margins of their notebook. The research assistants are completing the following activity in the margins of their notebook:

Dr. Trussell and Dr. Kerwin are examining Sport Board Governance (decision-making and conflict) in the non-profit sector. Research assistants will attend monthly Board meetings with a regional sport organization. Before their first field observation, the research assistants were trained how to take notes without disrupting the flow of conversation. This would be an example of what type of researcher role?

You are the manager of private sportsplex. You have noticed that employee moral has gone down and you are having difficulty with retention. Unsure what is happening, you decide to individually interview 10 of your frontline employees. During each interview you take notes while listening to their major concerns. After each employee leaves your office, you reflect on what they shared with you and write some notes on what you think might be going on within the organization. After all 10 interviews are completed, you decide to review all of your notes and determine the underlying patterns of why morale is so low. This last step is most closely aligned with the concept of:

Dr. Trussell worked with a student whose research project focused on refugee youth and their sport participation. The student contacted various organizations who worked with refugees to purposively recruit the research participants. The contacts from the various organizations are known as _______ in qualitative research.

Dr. Trussell worked with a student whose research examined the lives of women with recently acquired disabilities and their sport participation. The student had a difficult time reconciling her identity as an able-bodied person, as she listened to the emotionally-laden stories of women who were in car accidents and could no longer walk. What concept was the student experiencing?

In week #1 online tutorial, you were required to go to a public sport facility and write down what you observed on a piece of paper. This process of data collection is known as: