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SO202Introduction to Social Research
Dr. Rebecca King ORiain
Week 1
Tutor:Sarah Kennedy
Office Hour: Tuesday @ 10 (B.4)
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Types of Research:
Descriptive:
Social phenomena are defined and described.
Exploratory:
Explore how people get on in certain settings, what meaningsthey give to their actions, and what issues concern them.
Explanatory:
Identify cause and effects, and predict how a phenomenonwill change in response to the variation of another
phenomenon why things happen.
Evaluative:
Describes the impact of social policies and programs.
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Research Methods:
Quantitative
Positivist peach!
Reality is objective anduniversal
Theory testing
Numerical data
Identify patterns and
correlations
Macro-scale
Generalizable
Qualitative
Interpretivist onion!
Reality is sociallyconstructed, subjective
Theory building
Rich, descriptive data
Understand the social reality
of those involved
Micro scale
Contextual understanding
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Research Ethics:
Protecting Research participants
No harm
Informed consent
Disclosure Anonymity/confidentiality
Benefits needs to outweigh the risks
Achieve valid results