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Return to Explorations: Conducting Empirical Research in Canadian Political Science 4e Student Resources
Chapter 6 Self-Grading Quizzes
Researching Documents and Texts
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______ is the literal, or surface, meaning of the message.
A structural feature
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Latent content
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Manifest content
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Reactivity
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Which of these counts as a text?
A transcript of a parliamentary debate
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A sign at a demonstration
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A press release by a campaign
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All of the above
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If you want to determine when key events happened and who was involved in making decisions, you should conduct a:
Document analysis
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Content analysis
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Discourse analysis
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Textual analysis
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If you want to conduct a quantitative analysis of what terms politicians from different parties use to talk about refugees, you should conduct a:
Document analysis
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Content analysis
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Discourse analysis
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Textual Analysis
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If you want to understand the meanings behind the prime minister's statements of taxation, situating them in current political context, you should conduct a:
Document analysis
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Content analysis
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Discourse analysis
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Textual Analysis
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The process of converting information from the texts into themes or variables for analysis is called:
Reactivity
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Coding
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Content
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Field research
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Whereas _____________ refers to the literal statements in the text, ___________ refers to implications and connotations embedded in the text.
content analysis; discourse analysis
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manifest content; latent content
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discourse analysis; content analysis
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latent content; manifest content
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Which of these is the first step of conducting a content analysis?
Creating a codebook
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Manually coding data or using software to code data
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Analyzing the data
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Defining a research Question and determining a population of study
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Which of these is true of discourse analysis?
There is only one way to conduct a discourse analysis
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Discourse analysis focuses on key messages and ideas that together create meaning
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Discourse analysis is rooted in the scientific approach to research
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Discourse analysis focuses on manifest content
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One of the benefits of textual analysis is non-reactivity, which means that _________________.
It does not contain bias
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Research subjects do not change their answers based on the researcher's behaviour
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Texts can be easily accessed without travel
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It is always easy to understand
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A politician's post on Twitter is an example of a text.
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False
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It is straightforward to exclude confounding variables when using documents and texts.
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It is not important to specify the population of study for a textual analysis.
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Coding only addresses the structural features of the text, not its content.
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False
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A press release would be an example of a primary source.
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Discourse analysis is primarily a qualitative methodology.
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Textual analysis rarely produces causal claims.
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Content analysis is only used for theory-building research, not theory-testing research.
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