Vignette questionp158-159Yu Kobayashi

What is “vignette questions”?

Open question Closed question

What is “vignette questions”?

Personal factual question Factual question about others Informant factual question Question about attitudes Question about beliefs Question about normative standards Question about knowledge

What is “vignette questions”?

vignette“a short description in a book or play

showing the typical features of a person or situation”

Example(Box7.7) Jim and Margaret are a married couple

in their early forties. Jim’s parents, who live ….have had a serious car accident and they need long term daily care and help. Jim is their only son. He and his wife both work for…..

Example(Box7.7)(a) From the card, what should Jim and

Margaret do?

(b)In fact, Jim and Margaret are prepared to move and live near Jim’s parents,

but…. What should Jim and Margaret do? Should they move or should they stay?

(c) Why do you think they should move/stay?

(d) …Should Jim or Margaret give up their jobs to take care of Jim’s father? ID YES: Who should give up their job, Jim or

Margaret?

・ Family obligations

Likert scaleWhen a working couple decide that one of them should care for parents, the wife should be the one to give up her job.Agree_Undecied_Disagree

Advantage It can reduce the

possibility of unreflective reply.

Considerable effort is required.

Difficult to establish how far assumptions are being made about the characters in the scenario

Difficult to know how far people’s answers reflect their own normative views

Limitation

Card

Q1She has one thing to worry about. What

is it?(a) She has bad relationship with her

boss.(b) Children don’t sit down and listen to

her.(c) Children’s parents are always

complaining about something like monsters.

(d) One student refuses to come school.

Q2 In fact, one student, Kei Takano,

doesn’t come school for this two weeks. She don’t know why. Should she visit him? Or should she wait for more time?

(a) Visit(b) Wait

Q3Why do you think she visit/ wait?

Q4 She do decide to visit his house. Kei

Takano confessed that he was hurt when she called him Kei-kun because he is transgender. After she apologized, Kei Takano starts to come. Should she stop calling all boys’ name –kun from now on? IF YES: how should she call them?

(a) Yes. She should call all children –san.(b) Yes. She should distinguish how to call

depending on each children.(c) No, she doesn’t have to.

Thank you for listening…!