Terminology and Definitions Quiz

Culture = Shared knowledge and behavior of people who interact within distinct social settings and subsystems Participant observation = The active engagement (i.e., observation and participation) of the researcher in settings and activities of people being studied Fieldwork = All research activities carried out in and in relation to the field Key informants = Select informants/assistants with extensive or specialized knowledge of their own culture

Symbolic interaction = Theoretical perspective on how social reality is created by human interaction through ongoing, taken-for-granted processes of symbolic communication Pragmatism = Theoretical perspective that problems of truth and meaning need to be arrived at inductively, understood in terms of their utility and consequences, and modified to fit the circumstances of time, place, and the advent of new knowledge Constant comparison = A systematic approach to analysis that is a search for patterns in data as they are coded, sorted into categories, and examined in different contexts Saturation = The point at which categories of data are full and data collection ceases to provide new information