Introduction to Qualitative Research
... research. Structure and order are, of course, important for the research to be scientific. The social world, however, is not orderly or systematic; therefore it is all the more important that the researcher proceeds in a well structured and systematic way. The historical background Qualitative resea ...
... research. Structure and order are, of course, important for the research to be scientific. The social world, however, is not orderly or systematic; therefore it is all the more important that the researcher proceeds in a well structured and systematic way. The historical background Qualitative resea ...
case-oriented versus variable
... is aimed at singling out the average effects of some variables (such as level of education, or interest in politics) upon the use of different forms of collective action. As Mahoney and Goertz (2006) recently put it, in this logic of research the aim is to estimate the average effects of independent ...
... is aimed at singling out the average effects of some variables (such as level of education, or interest in politics) upon the use of different forms of collective action. As Mahoney and Goertz (2006) recently put it, in this logic of research the aim is to estimate the average effects of independent ...
After KKV: The New Methodology of Qualitative Research
... Cambridge University Press, 265 pp. Gary Goertz. 2006. Social Science Concepts: A User’s Guide. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 296 pp. Charles Ragin. 2008. Redesigning Social Inquiry: Fuzzy Sets and Beyond. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 225 pp. ...
... Cambridge University Press, 265 pp. Gary Goertz. 2006. Social Science Concepts: A User’s Guide. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 296 pp. Charles Ragin. 2008. Redesigning Social Inquiry: Fuzzy Sets and Beyond. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 225 pp. ...
Investigating Mediated Climate Change Communication: A Best
... voices (e.g. Painter, 2011), the framing of policy options (e.g. Olausson 2009), etc. In the process, MCCC research has also produced much knowledge about how such analyses can be done successfully, which research strategies work well, or which objects and concepts lend themselves well to analysis. ...
... voices (e.g. Painter, 2011), the framing of policy options (e.g. Olausson 2009), etc. In the process, MCCC research has also produced much knowledge about how such analyses can be done successfully, which research strategies work well, or which objects and concepts lend themselves well to analysis. ...
Deception in Marketing Research: Ethical, Methodological, and
... Kimmel similarly coded all of the issues of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JPSP) for the years 1989 and 1996 in order to update Adair, Dushenko, & Lindsay’s (1985) assessment of the same journal for 1979 and 1983. In contrast to the trends noted in marketing research, the JPSP fi ...
... Kimmel similarly coded all of the issues of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JPSP) for the years 1989 and 1996 in order to update Adair, Dushenko, & Lindsay’s (1985) assessment of the same journal for 1979 and 1983. In contrast to the trends noted in marketing research, the JPSP fi ...
Can and should educational research be educative
... universal and eternal, whereas the latter focus on what is changeable. And, since human social life is open to change, being at least in part a product of our actions, Aristotle argues that "domestic, legislative, and political science" (Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics 1141b27) must be practical rath ...
... universal and eternal, whereas the latter focus on what is changeable. And, since human social life is open to change, being at least in part a product of our actions, Aristotle argues that "domestic, legislative, and political science" (Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics 1141b27) must be practical rath ...
Social Media and Politics: Twitter Use in the Second
... • RepScottRigell: Yesterday in Afghanistan we lost more courageous American service members. Let their sacrifice for our freedoms never be forgotten. • PaulHirschbiel: There has been a lot of false information out there about Medicare. Listen to Paul set the record straight. • PaulHirschbiel: Check ...
... • RepScottRigell: Yesterday in Afghanistan we lost more courageous American service members. Let their sacrifice for our freedoms never be forgotten. • PaulHirschbiel: There has been a lot of false information out there about Medicare. Listen to Paul set the record straight. • PaulHirschbiel: Check ...
Towards a hermeneutic method interpretive research
... that phenomenology is the science of the 'Being of entities'; furthermore, he states that 'only though phenomenology is ontology possible.' Phenomena constitute the 'Being of entities', and it is as such that their meaning, modifications, and derivatives are arrived at. However, Heidegger argues tha ...
... that phenomenology is the science of the 'Being of entities'; furthermore, he states that 'only though phenomenology is ontology possible.' Phenomena constitute the 'Being of entities', and it is as such that their meaning, modifications, and derivatives are arrived at. However, Heidegger argues tha ...
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH PRACTICE
... We begin with a brief introduction to the philosophical underpinnings, history and traditions of qualitative research. This is not intended as a comprehensive or detailed account, but rather as edited highlights of some of the key issues in an ever advancing process. There are several reasons why it ...
... We begin with a brief introduction to the philosophical underpinnings, history and traditions of qualitative research. This is not intended as a comprehensive or detailed account, but rather as edited highlights of some of the key issues in an ever advancing process. There are several reasons why it ...
Toward a social responsibility theory for educational research (in
... formulate that AR develops practical knowledge in the pursuit of worthwhile human purposes. This in essence is of course not straightforward a difference with the main stream academic research approach because the latest develops (practical) knowledge for (worthwhile) human purposes too. There are, ...
... formulate that AR develops practical knowledge in the pursuit of worthwhile human purposes. This in essence is of course not straightforward a difference with the main stream academic research approach because the latest develops (practical) knowledge for (worthwhile) human purposes too. There are, ...
The Epistemology and Methodology of Exploratory Social Science
... Confirmatory research, more pragmatically, also is what society and policy makers expect social scientists to achieve, as, at the end, scientists are expected to explain and make predictions that help guide actions and policy-making. One normally does not get paid to speculate. With so many advantag ...
... Confirmatory research, more pragmatically, also is what society and policy makers expect social scientists to achieve, as, at the end, scientists are expected to explain and make predictions that help guide actions and policy-making. One normally does not get paid to speculate. With so many advantag ...
Durham Research Online
... Hilary GRAHAM (1983) criticises many aspects of the survey method, arguing that it "reflects the ideology of the nineteenth-century world in which it was developed" (p.132). She concludes that "the survey may well frustrate, from its inception, a feminist programme" (p.133). She argues that the surv ...
... Hilary GRAHAM (1983) criticises many aspects of the survey method, arguing that it "reflects the ideology of the nineteenth-century world in which it was developed" (p.132). She concludes that "the survey may well frustrate, from its inception, a feminist programme" (p.133). She argues that the surv ...
NIMBY or not? Exploring the relevance of location and the
... interesting topic of research but they may not necessarily be able to shed much light on the problem of localised opposition to a specific type of facility. This paper will be consistent with much of the recent literature and focus mainly on individuals. Some empirical studies (e.g. Ek, 2005; Warren ...
... interesting topic of research but they may not necessarily be able to shed much light on the problem of localised opposition to a specific type of facility. This paper will be consistent with much of the recent literature and focus mainly on individuals. Some empirical studies (e.g. Ek, 2005; Warren ...
Nebraska Sociological Feminist Collective
... Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/sociologyfacpub Part of the Sociology Commons Hartung, Beth; Ollenburger, Jane C.; Moore, Helen A.; and Deegan, Mary Jo, "Empowering a Feminist Ethic For Social Science Research: Nebraska Sociological Feminist Collective" (1988). Soc ...
... Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/sociologyfacpub Part of the Sociology Commons Hartung, Beth; Ollenburger, Jane C.; Moore, Helen A.; and Deegan, Mary Jo, "Empowering a Feminist Ethic For Social Science Research: Nebraska Sociological Feminist Collective" (1988). Soc ...
Data Collection Instruments
... be used to check the information given by the respondent; for example, the information you give your parents or friends on your academic performance (grade point average or grades received in examinations) could be checked by referring to your examinations records held by the Academic Affairs Direct ...
... be used to check the information given by the respondent; for example, the information you give your parents or friends on your academic performance (grade point average or grades received in examinations) could be checked by referring to your examinations records held by the Academic Affairs Direct ...
Community-Based Research as Pedagogy Hood College Kerry J. Strand
... an added benefit—their learning is also invigorated by real accountability and a heightened sense of purpose. They are doing the research and writing the final report not for the professor, but rather for and (ideally) with the community partners—and sometimes for others who they hope will be inspir ...
... an added benefit—their learning is also invigorated by real accountability and a heightened sense of purpose. They are doing the research and writing the final report not for the professor, but rather for and (ideally) with the community partners—and sometimes for others who they hope will be inspir ...
Discovery as Basic Methodology of Qualitative and Quantitative
... JAHODA, Paul LAZARSFELD & Hans ZEISEL 1933) in the Thirties. The investigation used a wide variety of techniques to collect information on individuals and families such as individual biographies, time usage sheets, official complaints and declarations, essays from school-children, an open competitio ...
... JAHODA, Paul LAZARSFELD & Hans ZEISEL 1933) in the Thirties. The investigation used a wide variety of techniques to collect information on individuals and families such as individual biographies, time usage sheets, official complaints and declarations, essays from school-children, an open competitio ...
THE HISTORICAL MEANING OF THE CRISIS OF INFORMATION
... two decades, the question of what impact IT will have on business organisations has continued to puzzle academics and practitioners alike" and more recently Clemons and Row (1994) could state that "There is little evidence that [information systems] have conferred competitive advantage in any but a ...
... two decades, the question of what impact IT will have on business organisations has continued to puzzle academics and practitioners alike" and more recently Clemons and Row (1994) could state that "There is little evidence that [information systems] have conferred competitive advantage in any but a ...
Ethical Considerations in Global Multi
... including the legal staff and human resource departments, the study participants themselves (the ATI product development innovation team), the university institutional review boards (IRBs), and the governmental funding agency, the NSF. The research team also referenced the American Anthropological A ...
... including the legal staff and human resource departments, the study participants themselves (the ATI product development innovation team), the university institutional review boards (IRBs), and the governmental funding agency, the NSF. The research team also referenced the American Anthropological A ...
2. The Context of Mass Communication Research
... the same subjects, rely more on imagination and insight unfettered, as they see it, by scientific paraphernalia. Just to complicate matters, there are also those who attempt to blend the two approaches. Who and what should we include, then, in our overview of the social scientific contribution to ma ...
... the same subjects, rely more on imagination and insight unfettered, as they see it, by scientific paraphernalia. Just to complicate matters, there are also those who attempt to blend the two approaches. Who and what should we include, then, in our overview of the social scientific contribution to ma ...
1. Introduction 1.1 The nature of social science 1.2 What is scientific
... the same subjects, rely more on imagination and insight unfettered, as they see it, by scientific paraphernalia. Just to complicate matters, there are also those who attempt to blend the two approaches. Who and what should we include, then, in our overview of the social scientific contribution to ma ...
... the same subjects, rely more on imagination and insight unfettered, as they see it, by scientific paraphernalia. Just to complicate matters, there are also those who attempt to blend the two approaches. Who and what should we include, then, in our overview of the social scientific contribution to ma ...
Ethics and feminist research: theory and practice
... and modes of practice to ethics committees, and professional association guidelines hold no legal status. Like journalists, however, researchers do not enjoy the protection of the law if they seek to keep their data confidential when its disclosure is subpoenaed (see discussion in Feenan, 2002). Furt ...
... and modes of practice to ethics committees, and professional association guidelines hold no legal status. Like journalists, however, researchers do not enjoy the protection of the law if they seek to keep their data confidential when its disclosure is subpoenaed (see discussion in Feenan, 2002). Furt ...
Comparative research_final - (BORA)
... have never been taught how to conduct cross-national studies. We were trained in universities where the main focus was on sociological methodologies for studies within our own culture. Much of the discussion at the Research Council symposium centred on this issue, and it seemed as though we had all ...
... have never been taught how to conduct cross-national studies. We were trained in universities where the main focus was on sociological methodologies for studies within our own culture. Much of the discussion at the Research Council symposium centred on this issue, and it seemed as though we had all ...
R-Words: Refusing Research
... Our thinking and writing in this essay is informed by our readings of postcolonial literatures and critical literatures on settler colonialism. We locate much of our analysis inside/in relation to the discourse of settler colonialism, the particular shape of colonial domination in the United States ...
... Our thinking and writing in this essay is informed by our readings of postcolonial literatures and critical literatures on settler colonialism. We locate much of our analysis inside/in relation to the discourse of settler colonialism, the particular shape of colonial domination in the United States ...
All the world`s a stage: Making sense of Shakespeare
... Shakespeare is a major cultural icon. His work has been the object of centuries of literary and academic attention in fields as diverse as literary criticism, history, philosophy, cultural anthropology, sociology, cultural studies and psychology, as well as performance studies. During this time, Sha ...
... Shakespeare is a major cultural icon. His work has been the object of centuries of literary and academic attention in fields as diverse as literary criticism, history, philosophy, cultural anthropology, sociology, cultural studies and psychology, as well as performance studies. During this time, Sha ...