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Assignment 1

Due date for this assignment: 2019-02-13, 23:59 IST.


What do qualitative researchers as bricoleurs produce?
a. An analysis of experiments
b. Interpretations of observed phenomena

With reference to the history of qualitative research, the study of the other as foreign was a
characteristic focus of:
a. The period of blurred genres
b. The first moment
c. The modernist phase

Qualitative research involves a study of:


a. Repetitive phenomena that must be studied in laboratory settings in very controlled
conditions
b. Routine phenomena occurring in their natural settings

Qualitative research builds on:


a. Objectivity irrespective of the environment the concepts under study interact with
b. Context and the situatedness of the concepts under study within their context

A qualitative researcher as a bicolour cannot successfully conduct qualitative research if:


a. S/he prefers to see connections in a linear, unidirectional manner instead of in a
networked, multipronged manner
b. S/he prefers to see connections in a networked, multipronged manner instead of in a
linear, unidirectional manner

Reflexivity in qualitative research refers to:


a. Flexibility in understanding concepts
b. The ability to incorporate feedback from what one studies into how one interprets what
one studies

Positivists believe that:


a. There is a reality out there to be studied, captured, and understood
b. Reality can never be fully understood, it can only be approximated

Postpositivists believe that:


a. There is a reality out there to be studied, captured, and understood
b. Reality can never be fully understood, it can only be approximated

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