An ethnographer studies participants’ experiences and feelings by collecting pre-existing diaries, letters, photographs and other objects, without interviewing their creators during collection. Which data-collection strategy is this?
Artifact collection
Artifact collection uses existing documents and objects, such as diaries, letters, photographs and artwork, to investigate experiences and cultural meanings. Field notes are the researcher’s records, while inductive analysis is a process for interpreting data. Thus the described strategy is artifact collection.
Important Questions from Research Designs - Teaching
Which of the following best illustrates an example of a mixed-methods research study?
What is the distinctive feature of case study research?
Which of the following research designs is the most appropriate for depicting lived experiential realities?
Which research design centres on interpreting individuals’ life stories and how they organise experiences over time, using autobiographies and personal conversations as data?
Which from the following are parts of the purpose of quantitative research?
A. Understanding of cultural traditions
B. Discovery of relationships among variables
C. Interpretation of human relationships
D. Confirmation of hypotheses
E. Generalization of results to other situations
