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Sociology fieldwork methods. Refer to University of New Mexico professor Jane Hood’s study...

Sociology fieldwork methods. Refer to University of New Mexico professor Jane Hood’s study of the fieldwork methods used by qualitative sociologists, presented in Exercise. Recall that she discovered that fieldwork methods could be classified into four distinct categories: Interview, Observation plus Participation, Observation Only, and Grounded Theory. The table that follows, reproduced from Teaching Sociology (July 2006), and saved in the FIELDWORK file, gives the number of sociology field research papers in each category. Suppose we randomly select one of these research papers and determine the method used. Find the probability that the method used is either Interview or Grounded Theory.

Fieldwork Method

Number of Papers

Interview

5,079

Observation plus Participation

1,042

Observation Only

848

Grounded Theory

537

Based on Hood, J. C. “Teaching against the text: The case of qualitative methods.” Teaching Sociology, Vol. 34, Issue 3 (Exhibit 2).

Sociology fieldwork methods. University of New Mexico professor Jane Hood investigated the fieldwork methods used by qualitative sociologists. (Teaching Sociology, July 2006.) Searching for all published journal articles, dissertations, and conference proceedings over the previous seven years in the Sociological Abstracts database, she discovered that fieldwork methods could be categorized as follows: Interview, Observation plus Participation, Observation Only, and Grounded Theory. The accompanying table shows the number of papers in each category. (These data are saved in the FIELDWORK file.) Use an appropriate graph to portray the results of the study. Interpret the graph.

Fieldwork Method

Number of Papers

Interview

5,079

Observation plus Participation

1,042

Observation Only

848

Grounded Theory

537

Based on Hood, J. C. “Teaching against the text: The case of qualitative methods.” Teaching Sociology, Vol. 34, Issue 3, p. 207 (Exhibit 2).

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