Qualitative MethodsQuiz

1.

Which of the following best describes the epistemic register that qualitative methods are designed to address?

2.

The attitudinal fallacy, as defined by Jerolmack and Khan (2014), refers to which inferential error?

3.

What does Burawoy's Extended Case Method use ethnographic anomalies for?

4.

Which of the following best describes purposive sampling in qualitative research?

5.

Elliot Liebow's Tally's Corner (1967) challenged the dominant account of Black working-class men primarily by doing which of the following?

6.

In the context of textual and archival work, what does Foucauldian discourse analysis primarily treat texts as?

7.

What is the primary argument of Desmond's Evicted regarding the relationship between eviction and poverty?

8.

Which of the following best describes the role of reflexivity in rigorous ethnographic research?

9.

Explain what 'theoretical saturation' means in qualitative research and describe how a researcher would know they had reached it.

10.

What is the difference between analytic generalisation and population-level generalisation, and why does this distinction matter for evaluating qualitative research?

11.

What is the 'attitudinal fallacy' and what kind of evidence does it suggest interviews are and are not well suited to produce?

12.

Drawing on at least three specific works or methodological concepts discussed in this module, evaluate the claim that qualitative research lacks the rigour necessary to produce reliable sociological knowledge.