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Return to Approaches to Social Research 6e Student Resources
Chapter 11 True/False Quiz
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Field research may be undertaken when it is crucial to understand the subjects' interpretation of reality.
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Many of the design elements of field research, such as sampling, are worked out in the field once the study is underway.
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The sampling methods and philosophy of field research are more similar to sampling in surveys than in experiments.
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The most common form of field research is nonparticipant observation.
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Participant observers rarely remain in the field for very long because it inhibits their objectivity.
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Field researchers may conduct formal interviews with informants to extend, clarify, and check their observations.
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"Going elsewhere" - to study the foreign and unfamiliar - is the field researcher's first rule for selecting a research setting.
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It is rarely necessary for field researches to reveal the details of their study to others in the settings they study.
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The field researcher's primary record consists of detailed notes taken on-the-spot as events unfold.
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Field researchers reduce the problems of reactivity by blending in and not altering the settings they study.
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