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What are the chief ways of collecting data from individuals using the World Wide Web and online communications?
In what ways might the analysis of websites pose particular difficulties that are less likely to be encountered in the analysis of non-electronic documents?
To what extent does the rise of mixed methods research suggest that the paradigm wars are over?
Do Internet documents and other virtual outputs raise special problems in terms of assessing them from the point of view of Scott's criteria?
What kinds of documents might be considered official documents deriving from private sources?
What do the studies by Abraham (1994) and Turner (1994) suggest in terms of the potential for social researchers of official documents deriving from the state?
What might be the role of personal documents in relation to the life history or biographical method?
To what extent can some qualitative research be deemed to exhibit the characteristics of a natural science model?
What are the main points of difference between CAQDAS and quantitative data analysis software like SPSS?
How does the emphasis on stories in narrative analysis provide a distinctive approach to the analysis of qualitative data?
What advantages might the focus group method offer in contrast to an individual qualitative interview?
Outline the relative advantages and disadvantages of qualitative interviewing and participant observation.
Why has the qualitative interview become such a prominent research method for feminist researchers?
Why might the life history interview be significant for a researcher employing a narrative analysis approach?
What key questions might a CDA practitioner ask in seeking to reveal the meaning of globalization discourses?
What is meant by each of the following: turn-taking; adjacency pair; preference organization; account; repair mechanism?
In what ways is CA fundamentally about the production of social order in interaction? Why are audio-recording and transcription crucial in CA?
In what ways does the role of language in conversation and discourse analysis differ from that which is typical in most other research methods?
How far do the greater problems of transcription and difficulty of analysis undermine the potential of focus groups?
How does purposive sampling differ from probability sampling and why do many qualitative researchers prefer to use the former?
How compelling is Denzin and Lincoln's (2005b) marking-out of distinct ‘moments' in the history of qualitative research?
What might be the role of key informants in ethnographic research? Is there anything to be concerned about when using them?
Examine some articles in British sociology journals in which ethnography and participant observation figure strongly.
Why might it be important to remember in purposive sampling that it is not just people who are candidates for consideration in sampling issues?
To what extent does theoretical sampling assist the qualitative researcher in making decisions about sample size?