Key Terms

  • analytic summaries, 99
  • archival research, 90
  • audiovisual documentation, 90
  • bounded system, 91
  • causal chains, 80
  • census, 74
  • community mapping, 90
  • conceptual model, 79
  • criterion sampling, 84
  • critical researchers, 77
  • cultural consensus modeling, 89
  • domains, 80
  • duration, 82
  • emic perspective, 87
  • ethnographic mapping, 85
  • etic perspective, 97
  • extreme or midpoint sampling, 84
  • generalizability, 84
  • in-depth interviews, 90
  • individual-level network data, 91
  • institutional review boards (IRBs), 97
  • interpretivists, 76
  • methodology, 70
  • methods, 70
  • mixed-paradigm research, 77
  • network research, 89
  • obtrusive, 88
  • outcome, 80
  • paradigm, 76
  • participation, 70
  • participatory or collaborative approach, 78
  • positionality, 71
  • positivists, 76
  • predictor, 80
  • qualitatively ...

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