Across
- 3. involves selecting cases based on a recommendation of an expert or key informant
- 6. involves selecting cases that illustrate or highlight what is typical, average, normal or representative
- 8. seeks to understand the rules, mechanisms, and structure of conversations and texts.
- 12. is the systematic collection and critical evaluation of data relating to past occurrences
- 14. involves selecting cases that meet a predetermined criterion of importance
- 15. is the way the members of the culture envision their world
- 17. provides opportunities for learning from the most unusual and extreme informants
- 18. is the outsiders’ interpretation of the experiences of that culture
- 19. is the information about the culture that is so deeply embedded in cultural experiences that members do not talk about it
Down
- 1. involves selecting cases that will most benefit the study
- 2. focus on the cognitive world of a culture, with particular emphasis on the semantic rules and shared meanings that shape behavior
- 4. involves information-rich cases that manifest the phenomenon of interest intensely
- 5. involves selecting important cases regarding the phenomenon of interest
- 7. is a sociological and social-psychological tradition with roots in American Pragmatism
- 9. used when researchers need to have potential participants come forward and identify themselves
- 10. is the process of identifying and holding in abeyance preconceived beliefs and opinions about phenomenon under study
- 11. uses lived experiences as a tool for better understanding the social, cultural, political, or historical context in which those experiences occur
- 12. deliberately reduces variation and permits a more focused inquiry
- 13. are in-depth investigations of a single entity, which could be an individual, family, group, institution, community, or other social unit
- 16. are additional cases that fit researchers’ conceptualization and offer enhanced credibility, richness and depth to analysis and confusion