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Question 01

Which of the following is not a characterization of the natural sciences?

a) The natural sciences are possessed with an epistemological unity.

b) The natural sciences are a complex area just like the social sciences.

c) The practices of natural scientists are revealed in their written accounts.

d) All natural scientists can be charged with the term positivist.

Question 02

Qualitative research often adheres to a natural science model because:

a) it rejects all attempts to deduce theory in advance.

b) it places a large degree of emphasis on understanding context.

c) it can be used to investigate specific and tightly defined problems.

d) it is always constructivist in nature.

Question 03

In what way does quantitative research study meaning?

a) Through detailed description of context.

b) Through careful observation of specific actions in the workplace.

c) Through an attempt to reveal the influence of capitalist structures on everyday life.

d) Through the exploration of attitudes via extensive survey questions.

Question 04

Why is it problematic to suggest that the choice of business research method reveals ontological and epistemological assumptions?

a) Because business research should not be concerned with these issues.

b) Because the correspondence between a research strategy and a set of ontological and epistemological assumptions is not straight forward.

c) Because the choice of research method is dictated by the research question.

d) Because the correspondence between a research strategy and either ontology or epistemology is impossible to define.

Question 05

Quantitative research does not always adhere to a deductive model because:

a) Its findings frequently suggest new departures and theoretical contributions.

b) Many survey-based studies are subjected to exploratory analyses.

c) There is a great deal of creativity in quantitative data analysis.

d) All of the above.

Question 06

Which method of data collection commonly associated with qualitative research can be seen as artificial?

a) Ethnography.

b) Participant observation.

c) Semi-structured interview.

d) All of the above.

Question 07

What does Gephart (1988) mean by the term ethnostatistics?

a) The collection of statistical data using ethnographic methods.

b) The study of the use of statistics as a rhetorical device.

c) The use of statistical analysis by the participants of the research.

d) The statistical analysis of one specific context.

Question 08

Which form of data analysis can be applied to ethnographic accounts to establish links between in-depth accounts and statistical analysis?

a) Discourse analysis.

b) Content analysis.

c) Mulitvariate analysis.

d) Bivariate analysis.

Question 09

What is quasi-quantification?

a) Statistical analysis based upon synthetic data.

b) The application of quantitative methods in feminist research.

c) The allusions to quantity made by qualitative researchers.

d) The testing of the suitability of specific statistical tests.

Question 10

What benefit is there to qualitative researchers in providing information on the frequency of a particular perspective?

a) They are more likely to get published if they can report a high frequency.

b) It gives the reader a clear sense of the relative prevalence of the perspective.

c) It is useful for quantitative secondary analysis.

d) All of the above.

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Chapter 24

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