Short-answer questions
Answer each question carefully. Consult your Social Research text when
your memory fails you or when you are in doubt about the accuracy of your
responses.
1
In what ways is feminist research different from quantitative research?
2
In what ways is feminist research different from qualitative research?
3
Which type of research is most effective: quantitative, qualitative or feminist
research?
4
What are the main criteria of feminist empiricism?
5
What are the most important characteristics of feminist standpoint research?
6
What are the main principles of feminist postmodernism?
7
What are the methodological criteria shared by all three branches of feminist
research?
8
In what ways are the three branches of feminist research different from each
other?
9
Explain how research conducted by feminist empiricists
differs from that conducted by quantitative researchers.
10
Explain how research conducted by feminist standpoint theorists differs from
research conducted by qualitative researchers.
11
Discuss critically the notion that 'feminists reject quantitative research and
quantitative methods'.
12
In what ways is feminist research different from quantitative research?
13
In what ways is feminist research different from qualitative research?
14
What are the arguments for and against feminist methodology?
15 How
can a common feminist methodology be justified if the various feminist branches
do not share the same methodological principles?