Chapter 11 True/False Quiz

. Field research may be undertaken when it is crucial to understand the subjects' interpretation of reality.

. Many of the design elements of field research, such as sampling, are worked out in the field once the study is underway.

. The sampling methods and philosophy of field research are more similar to sampling in surveys than in experiments.

. The most common form of field research is nonparticipant observation.

. Participant observers rarely remain in the field for very long because it inhibits their objectivity.

. Field researchers may conduct formal interviews with informants to extend, clarify, and check their observations.

. "Going elsewhere" - to study the foreign and unfamiliar - is the field researcher's first rule for selecting a research setting.

. It is rarely necessary for field researches to reveal the details of their study to others in the settings they study.

. The field researcher's primary record consists of detailed notes taken on-the-spot as events unfold.

. Field researchers reduce the problems of reactivity by blending in and not altering the settings they study.

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