Scenario 2: Researching people’s perceptions of transgender parenting
A researcher has collected story completion data about people’s perceptions of transgender parenting. She has collected 50 stories – 25 from men and 25 from women – and is unsure whether to use thematic analysis or interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) to analyse the data and she asks for your advice...
1) You advise her to use thematic analysis...
Because thematic analysis is a more objective method
Because IPA can only be used to analyse data about people’s experiences and the meanings they attach to their experiences
Because IPA can only be used to analyse interview data
Because the sample is too small to use IPA
2) The researcher chose to use story completion tasks to collect her data...
Because story completion tasks are ideally suited to exploring people’s assumptions about a topic
Because they are the most accurate way of measuring people’s perceptions of a topic
Because they are easier to analyse than qualitative interviews
Because it’s really important to set every participate the same task in qualitative research
3) When the researcher has completed her analysis she will be able to...
Predict which groups in the population will hold the most negative attitude towards transgender parents
Understand the effects of transgender parenting on children
Understand why teenagers hold more negative attitudes to their parent undergoing a sex change than younger children
Discuss key themes in the ways in which people make sense of transgender parenting
4) The researcher is worried that interviews would have been a better method to use, so you reassure her that story completion tasks are an appropriate method because...
Interviews can only be used with small samples
Interviews are not ideal for researching sensitive topics
Researchers require years of research experience before they can conduct interviews successfully and ethically
Interviews are better used to examine people’s experiences
5) The researcher wants to compare male and female participants’ responses to the story completion task but she is worried that this would be inappropriate. You reassure her that this would be appropriate because...
Because it’s important that her analysis shows whether men or women hold more negative attitudes to transgender parenting
Story completion tasks are one of the few qualitative methods ideally suited to comparative designs
It’s really important for qualitative studies to generate hypotheses that can be tested in quantitative research
Because her study will lack validity if she doesn’t compare male and female responses
Because IPA can only be used to analyze data about people’s experiences and the meanings they attach to their experiences
Because story completion tasks are ideally suited to exploring people’s assumptions about a topic
Discuss key themes in the ways in which people make sense of transgender parenting
Interviews are better used to examine people’s experiences
Story completion tasks are one of the few qualitative methods ideally suited to comparative designs
You might also like to view...
In the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, what did the medical staff at Tuskegee University do?
A) They provided low-cost care for men infected with venereal disease during World War II B) They discovered a new strain of syphilis, but did not report it to the Center for Disease Control. C) They used unauthorized, experimental treatments for syphilis. D) They left men diagnosed with syphilis go untreated so they could follow the disease.
Breadwinning men distinguish between "equal but different" forms of care giving when children enter the picture. This means
a. they express support for the ideal of equal parenting but they fall back on the practical advantages of devoted mothering b. they demand flexible schedules at work so they are able to attend school functions, doctor's visits, etc. c. they revert to completely traditional roles and refuse to participate in their children's care d. they support the idea of stay-at-home dads
The percentage of people in a specific age range who are not currently enrolled in high school and who do not have a high school degree or its equivalent is referred to as the: a. status dropout rate. b. event dropout rate
c. absolute rate. d. relative drop rate.
Proponents of voucher systems argue that vouchers a. create competition and enhance the quality of schooling
b. drain funds away from public schools. c. attract top students from public schools. d. increase segregation.