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| experiments, surverys, content analysis, existing statistics |
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| Field research, historical/comparative research |
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| verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic: |
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| Empirical social research properties |
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Systematic: plan of action for collecting information
Involves data: information gathered from primary sources
Empirical: based on evidence
Analysis: researcher interprets the data and draws conclusions from them
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| Importance of social research |
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Produces knowledge
informs social policy
Test/apply social theory
Document social trends/inform
Make comparisons across regions or culture
gain new insights |
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| Researchers immerse in the culture or subculture that they are studying. Combines formal and informal interviewing and observation. The goal is to understand some aspect of a culture or population in depth. Borrowed from anthropology. |
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| Data from one point in time (majority of research) |
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| Collect data at multiple points in time |
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| Constructionist epistemology/worldview |
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Typically qualitative
Individuals develop meaning of their social worlds
inductive approach (theory from data)
subjective ontology
focus on understanding rather than explaining phenomenon |
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Positivist epistemology/worldview
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Typically quantitative
focus on cause and effect, theory testing, scientific method
deductive approach
explains how and why things happen |
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begin with theory and move to empirical evidence
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ethics of social research
3 principles |
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Respect: individuals should be treated as autonomous agent
Beneficience- researchers have obligation to protect people from harm and ensure well being
Justice: who bears benefits and burdens of research |
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| National research act of 1974 |
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outcome of Tuskegee study
Protection of human subjects |
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1979 by national commission for protection of human subjects
A statement of basic ethical principles for research with human subjects
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| for persons (informed consent) |
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| Assessment of risks and benefits |
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| Selection of subjects must be fair |
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explain purpose of research
explain procedurespossible risks/benefits
identify funding source
offer to answer inquiries
individual is free to withdraw
guarantee confidentiality anonymity |
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| Researcher cannot link will not identify info to a participant |
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| researcher can identify info to specific person, but promises not to reveal identity |
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| Demonstrate familiarity with body of knowledge and establish credibility. Connect prior research to current research |
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| Theory about what consititures valid knowledge and how knowledge is obtained |
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| drawn from positivism. researchers should remain as far as possible from what they study so there is on bias |
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| affects how we approach research |
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| does a measure produce consistent results when used repeatedly? |
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| Internal threats to validity |
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History: events outside experiment can affect outcomes
Mortality: participants drop out
Diffusion: experimental participants may communicate with eachother and affect the treatment |
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| External threats to validity |
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| Experimenters draw incorrect inferences from the sample data to other persons or groups |
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Measure that determine whether or not researchers can draw inferences from an existing measure of a concept.
Does the instrument measure what the researcher hopes to measure? |
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| When individuals cannot be randomly sampled, due to the process by which the sample is generated |
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| means that each individual has an equal probability of being selected from the population. |
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| Peer reviewed/scholarly articles |
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published in scholarly journal
citations
written by academics/experts within field |
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| Verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic |
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| Research hopes to develop theory that is grounded in info from participants |
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| Theory in quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research |
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| scientific prediction or expectation for what researcher expects to find. |
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| Independent variable that researchers measure because they think it may influence the dependent variable |
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A characteristic or attribute that can be measure or observed
2 categories |
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| Mediate effect of independent variable on dependent variable |
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| examines the relationship among variables |
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| Literature review- process |
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Start with general idea
limit topic to specific interest
use databases
start with current research, work backwards
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| Where do research ideas come from? |
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| Curiosity, surprise and interests |
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| The ability to recognize when info is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate and use effectively the needed information |
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