SOC377: Exam 1

Which model of research is conducted if you believe children are fundamentally different from adults, that universal patterns of development unfold predictably, and that children are unreliable research informants?

• Research ON children

• Research WITH children

Which model of research is conducted if you assert that childhood is not a natural state, but rather a social construct, that children are social agents?

• Research ON children

• Research WITH children

______ is a belief structure on what exists. A belief on how things should be.

• Ontology

• Epistemology

______ is the study of how we know, how we know something exists.

• Ontology

• Epistemology

Select all that are involved in reflexivity:

• Involves self-scrutiny and political awareness

• Involves both academic knowledge and personal culture

• Involves recognizing you should be doing something differently

• Involves checking participants reflexes, to see if they can adapt to experimental changes

What are the questions important to consider when discussing reflexivity and qualitative research?

• What are the underlying assumptions about the production of knowledge?

• How do we know and who can claim to know?

• What is considered legitimate knowledge and what role does power, identity, and positionality play in this process?

• How does one put into practice the reflexive techniques and address methodological issues in a way that results in valid, good quality social research?

_________ is making meaning of another's knowledge through discussing, comparing and debating with participants.

• Research conversations

• Shoulder to shoulder method

• Walking together method

_________ is interviews beside each other, rather than eye contact

• Research conversations

• Shoulder to shoulder method

• Walking together method

_________ is interviews with free movement that allows for fluidity

• Research conversations

• Shoulder to shoulder method

• Walking together method

True or False:

Power relationships between adults and children are fixed.

• True

• False