The Social Contexts of Focus Groups

By Jocelyn A. Hollander. 2004

616 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education, Public Administration, Sociology and Political Science

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In Education

1. Lilla Vicsek
2. S. Russell
3. M. Brod
4. L. Tesler
5. L. Crockett
6. Daniel J. Brown
7. D. Fletcher
8. T. Christensen

In Public Administration

1. Lilla Vicsek
2. Keonya C. Booker

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Lilla Vicsek
2. S. Russell
3. M. Brod
4. L. Tesler
5. L. Crockett
6. Daniel J. Brown
7. D. Fletcher
8. T. Christensen

Citations in the corpus

• The Meaning of Good Parent–Child Relationships for Mexican American Adolescents (2007, background): “At the same time, a focus group is a multifaceted social setting, in which peer expectations may lead participants to provide normative responses (Hollander, 2004).”
• Issues in the Analysis of Focus Groups: Generalisability, Quantifiability, Treatment of Context and Quotations (2010, background): “…can affect the results of focus groups, there are only a very small number of analyses in which any of these factors are taken into account (see Hollander, 2004, where she discusses amongst others the effect of the location of the focus group discussions on what the participants said in the…”
• A British university case study of the transitional experiences of student-athletes (2015, background): “This decision was made to alleviate any hierarchical issues that may have resulted from his senior role and potentially restricted participant disclosure (cf. Hollander, 2004); head and assistant coaches from the same sport were also separated in the focus groups for this reason.”
• Focus Group Evidence (2014, neutral): “Hollander (2004) argues that ‘‘focus groups may be best conceptualized as a ‘‘research site,’’ not a research instrument’’ (p. 631).”
• Qualitative research and content validity: developing best practices based on science and experience (2009, background): “For focus groups, segmenting people into homogeneous groups helps to build a comparative dimension into a project (e.g., analyzing discussions by age, gender or class), and may facilitate the comfort level, sense of cohesiveness and/or flow of interactions among participants [26, 27, 32, 33 ].”
• Connection and Commitment: How Sense of Belonging and Classroom Community Influence Degree Persistence for African American Undergraduate Women. (2016, background): “The focus groups also offered students a chance to hear the thoughts of their peers and comment on like experiences and dissimilar feelings (Hollander, 2004).”