Which of the following is a type of document employed in documentary research?
1. public records
2. archival records
3. diaries and autobiographies
4. all of the above
Which of the following is NOT one of the advantages of documentary methods?
1. retrospectivity
2. spontaneity
3. high reliability
4. non-reactivity
Which of the following is NOT one of the weaknesses of content analysis?
1. lack of access to some documents (personal diaries, etc.)
2. incompleteness of some documents
3. high costs of the research procedure
4. lack of representativeness
Content analysis is
1. a direct method
2. an indirect method
3. a physiological method
4. a projective method
Content analysis is
1. a quantitative method
2. a qualitative method
3. both of the above, depending on the research design
4. both of the above, depending on the research design
Which of the following methods is employed in biographical research?
1. holistic method
2. particularistic method
3. comparative method
4. all of the above
The type of content that is studied in content analysis, which focuses on the visible surface text, that is, the actual parts of a text, is
1. latent content
2. the manifest content
3. the concrete content
4. the constructed content
In content analysis, the identification of the presence and frequency of concrete and visible surface text is known as
1. concrete coding
2. latent coding
3. latent coding
4. manifest coding
Which of the following is one of the major types of qualitative content analysis?
1. summarising content analysis
2. explicating content analysis
3. structuring content analysis
4. all of the above
Which of the following is one of the major goals of qualitative content analysis?
1. understanding the content
2. simplifying and summarising the text
3. building of categories
4. all of the above
Which of the following is NOT one of the major strengths of content analysis?
1. it does not require respondents to achieve its goals
2. it is free of coder bias
3. it is a low-cost method
4. accessibility of research material
Which of the following is NOT one of the most common features of discourse analysis?
1. it is socially and culturally constructed
2. it depends on social structures
3. it is independent of politics and power systems
4. it reflects the social context
Which of the following describes the term ‘linguistic repertoires’?
1. they are part of the process of discourse analysis
2. they are clusters of terms, descriptions and figures of speech
3. they are building blocks used to make constructions of cognitive processes, actions, and so on
4. all of the above
The hermeneutic circle is a technique
1. employed to link the unknown whole with the known parts
2. working on the assumption that the whole and the parts are interdependent
3. resting on the notion that understanding is circular
4. containing all points listed above
The notion of Verstehen as employed in social research implies
1. psychological Verstehen
2. meaning-Verstehen
3. elementary/higher Verstehen
4. all of the above
Examples of subject-directed methodologies are
1. psychoanalysis, symbolic interactionism, and feminism
2. hermeneutics, phenomenology and ethnomethodology
3. ethnology, constructivism and constructionism
4. none of the above
The methodology which stresses the process of text interpretation as a central element of research is associated with
1. ethnology
2. hermeneutics
3. ethnomethodology
4. feminist empiricism