Investigating the Social World
Ninth Edition
Video Interview Questions
Listen to the researcher interviews for Chapter 10:
Interview with Andrea Leverentz
Interview with Lakshmi Srinivas
1. What type of research design did Andrea Leverentz use in her study? What were some of the advantages and disadvantages of this type of design that were mentioned in the interview?
2. What new questions and issues came up during Leverentz’s research, and how did these differ from the original research question or focus? What does this say about the inductive approach and the importance of, as Leverentz says, letting “the data speak to you?”
3. According to Lakshmi Srinivas, what are the benefits to ethnographic research?
4. What challenges of ethnographic research does Srinivas highlight?