This workbook is loaded with exercises, how-to sections and checklists, all designed to serve as a supplemental support for students to apply the principles and concepts learned from the textbook it accompanies. With instructions and explanations written in a conversational style, it will help the student understand why the assignments are being used, why the skills they are developing are relevant and how the exercises relate to the textbook content.
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1. The Basics of Research Design
Activity 1.1: Ways of Knowing (Personal Reflection)
Activity 1.2: Identifying Researchers’ Approach
Activity 1.3: Dependent and Independent Variables
Activity 1.4: Variables, Indicators, and Values
Activity 1.5: Operationalizing Definitions
Activity 1.6: Research Interest Reflection
Activity 1.7: Finding a Topic: Your Research Project
Chapter 1 Reflection
Self- or Peer-Assessment for Chapter 1
2. Ethics
Activity 2.1: Personal Ethics Self-Evaluation (Personal Reflection)
Activity 2.2: Operationalizing the AAA Code of Ethics
Activity 2.3: Exploring Relationships of Responsibility
Activity 2.4: Ethical Dilemmas
Activity 2.5: Research Design Decisions: Recruitment
Activity 2.6: Research Design Decisions: Positionality
Activity 2.7: Research Design Decisions: Risk Assessment and Management
Chapter 2 Reflection
Self- or Peer-Assessment for Chapter 2
3. Sampling
Activity 3.1: Personal Sampling Self-Evaluation (Personal Reflection)
Activity 3.2: Cultural Data versus Individual Attribute Data
Activity 3.3: Non Probability Sampling Plans
Activity 3.4: Critiquing the Choice of Informants
Activity 3.5: Probability Sampling Plans
Activity 3.6: Sampling Frames
Activity 3.7: Research Design Decisions: Sampling Plan
Chapter 3 Reflection
Self- or Peer-Assessment for Chapter 3
4. Participant Observation
Activity 4.1: Participant Observation Self-Evaluation (Personal Reflection)
Activity 4.2: Showing, Not Telling
Activity 4.3: Reflexivity
Activity 4.4: Introductory Participant Observation
Activity 4.5: Research Design Decisions: Anticipating Field Challenges and Planning for Where/When/How/What
Activity 4.6: Research Project: Participant Observation—Jottings
Chapter 4 Reflection
Self- or Peer-Assessment for Chapter 4
5. Writing Field Notes
Activity 5.1: Writing Field Notes Self-Evaluation (Personal Reflection)
Activity 5.2: Correcting Pitfalls
Activity 5.3: Selection: Inscribing Reality
Activity 5.4: Presentation: Inscribing Reality
Activity 5.5: Analytical Commentaries
Activity 5.6: Research Project: Writing Field Notes
Activity 5.7: Autoethnography
Chapter 5 Reflection
Self- or Peer-Assessment for Chapter 5: Activity 5.6
Self- or Peer-Assessment for Chapter 5: Activity 5.7
6. Interviewing
Activity 6.1: Interviewing Self-Evaluation (Personal Reflection)
Activity 6.2: Correcting Interview Questions
Activity 6.3: Constructing an Interview Guide for Peer Interviews
Activity 6.4: Constructing an Informed Consent Form for Peer Interviews
Activity 6.5: Peer Interviews
Activity 6.6: Research Design Decisions: Preparing an Interview Guide and a Consent Form
Activity 6.7: Research Project: Interviews
Chapter 6 Reflection
Self- or Peer-Assessment for Chapter 6
7. Coding and Analysis
Activity 7.1: Coding and Analysis Self-Evaluation (Personal Reflection)
Activity 7.2: Abbreviating, Coding, and Analysis
Activity 7.3: Inductive versus Deductive Coding
Activity 7.4: Manifest versus Latent Content
Activity 7.5: Content Analysis of TV Shows
Activity 7.6: Practicing Grounded Theory
Activity 7.7: Research Project: Coding and Analysis Using Grounded Theory
Activity 7.8: Writing Ethnographic Narrative
Chapter 7 Reflection
Self- or Peer-Assessment for Chapter 7: Activity 7.7
Self- or Peer-Assessment for Chapter 7: Activity 7.8
8. Surveys and Mixed Methods Design
Activity 8.1: Reflections on User Experience Self-Evaluation (Personal Reflection)
Activity 8.2: Mixed Methods Design
Activity 8.3: Triangulation
Activity 8.4: Practicing Constructing Survey Questions
Activity 8.5: Practicing Survey Distribution Decisions
Activity 8.6: Practicing Survey Data Analysis
Activity 8.7: Research Design Decisions: Constructing Survey Questions
Activity 8.8: Research Design Decisions: Preparing a Survey and Consent Page
Activity 8.9: Research Project: Survey Data Collection, Analysis, and Write-Up
Chapter 8 Reflection
Self- or Peer-Assessment for Chapter 8
9. Cultural Domains: Modeling Cognition and Knowledge
Activity 9.1: My Taxonomies and Cultural Models Self-Evaluation (Personal Reflection)
Activity 9.2: Practicing Folk Taxonomy Study Design
Activity 9.3: Practicing Folk Taxonomy Data Collection and Analysis
Activity 9.4: Practicing Cultural Models Study Design
Activity 9.5: Practicing Cultural Model Data Collection and Analysis
Activity 9.6: Practicing Decision-Tree Model Study Design
Activity 9.7: Practicing Decision-Tree Model Data Collection and Analysis
Activity 9.8: Research Design Decisions: Cultural Domains Study
Activity 9.9: Research Project: Cultural Domain Study
Chapter 9 Reflection
Self- or Peer-Assessment for Chapter 9
10. Indirect Observation: Material Culture and Using Archives or Media
Activity 10.1: My Indirect Observation Self-Evaluation (Personal Reflection)
Activity 10.2: Practicing Visual and Material Culture Study Design
Activity 10.3: Practicing Visual and Material Culture Collection and Analysis
Activity 10.4: Practicing Diary Study Design
Activity 10.5: Practicing Diary Study Collection and Analysis
Activity 10.6: Practicing Archival Study Design
Activity 10.7: Practicing Archival Study Collection and Analysis
Activity 10.8: Research Design Decisions: Selecting an Indirect Observation Study
Activity 10.9: Research Project: Indirect Observation Study
Chapter 10 Reflection
Self- or Peer-Assessment for Chapter 10
11. Behavior and Context: Mapping and Passive Direct Observation
Activity 11.1: Behavior and Context Self-Evaluation (Personal Reflection)
Activity 11.2: Practicing Participatory Mapping Study Design
Activity 11.3: Practicing Participatory Mapping
Activity 11.4: Practicing Mobility Mapping
Activity 11.5: Continuous Monitoring: Creating an Ethogram
Activity 11.6: Continuous Monitoring: Using an Ethogram and Writing
Activity 11.7: Research Design Decisions: Selecting a Behavior and Context Study
Activity 11.8: Research Project: Behavior and Context Study
Chapter 11 Reflection
Self- or Peer-Assessment for Chapter 11
12. Putting It All Together: Culminating Experiences
Activity 12.1: Integrating Skills Self-Evaluation (Personal Reflection)
Activity 12.2: Human Subjects Protocol for Institutional Review Board (IRB)
Activity 12.3: Grant Proposal
Activity 12.4: Technical Report
Activity 12.5: Paper Presentation
Activity 12.6: Poster Presentation
Chapter 12 Reflection
Self- or Peer-Assessment for Chapter 12: Activity 12.2
Self- or Peer-Assessment for Chapter 12: Activity 12.3
Self- or Peer-Assessment for Chapter 12: Activity 12.4
Self- or Peer-Assessment for Chapter 12: Activity 12.5
Self- or Peer-Assessment for Chapter 12: Activity 12.6