Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Social Research
Anmerkungen:
- Proposal:
IntroductionLiterature ReviewTheoryMethodologyAims and ObjectivesSample and DesignMethodsAnalysisEthicsTimetableDissemination
- 2. unknown
- Interpretivist sociology looks at the
way society is shaped by the
interpretations of the world
INTERPRETIVISM : contrasts
positivism, considers influence of
tradition, understanding human
behaviour. Overlaps with: Weber's
verstehen, hermeneutic -
phenomenological tradition,
symbolic interactionalism
- Positivism is the term used to describe an approach to
the study of society that relies specifically on scientific
evidence, such as experiments and statistics
POSITIVISM : descriptive, confirmed by the senses,
gather of facts. Overlaps with: objective, inductivism,
reductivism, phenomenalism, impericalism
- Critical Approach
- 4. Sample and Design
- Size/Number
- Sampling
- Probability Sampling
- Purposive Sampling
- Saturation
- Set amounts???
- 5. Methodology/Epistemology
- Primary
- Subjective/Qualitative ie. NVivo
- Interviews,
Focus Groups,
Observation,
Documentary
Analysis,
Discourse
Analysis
- Emergent Design
(not predetermined)
- Objective/Quantitative ie. SPSS
- Polls, Multiple Choice Surveys, Data frequencies
- Mixed Methods
aka ???
- Pragmatic
Approach
- Secondary
- Academic Journals,
Books,
Peer-Reviewed
Literature
- 7. Ethics
- Confidentiality
- Personal Bias: Individual, Faculty or
- Data Collection and Storage
- Anonymity
- 3. Aims and Objectives
- Approach
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- explains or predicts situations and outcomes
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- Inductive: Observation > Pattern >
Tentative Hypotheses > Theory
Anmerkungen:
- "top down", begins with a hunch or theory
- Deductive: Theory > Hypothesis >
Observation > Confirmation
Anmerkungen:
- the study itself helps you to identify the important questions, theories are developed from the study
- 6. Analysis
- Theory (paradigms/perspectives)
- Structural Functionalism
- Conflict Theory
- Symbolic Interactionalism or Interpretive Paradigm
- Feminism