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Departement Sosiologie en Sosiale Antropologie
Department of Sociology and Social AnthropologyS364 - Sosiale Navorsing (2013)
S364 - Social Research (2013)
Dr Lloyd Hill
Lecture 4 Lesing 4Reading and
questioning
Lees en bevraag-
tekening
Wednesday, 31 July Woensdag, 31 Julie
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Overview / Oorsig
Why do we read?
academic voice?
What is a research
proposal? What is a literature
review?
literature review vsconceptual framework
Getting started
research questions
Waarom lees ons?
akademiese stem?
Wat is 'n navorsings-
voorstel? Wat is 'n literatuur-
oorsig?
literatuuroorsig vskonseptuele
raamwerk
Om te begin...
navorsingsvrae
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Read
(lees)
Lecture
(voorlesing)
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Hoekom lees ons?
Why do we read?
Conceptualizing my
issue / topic
Definitive (deductive) vs
sensitizing concepts(Blumer)
Situating myself in my
academic field
Identifying my/ourdiscourse communities
Questions
Preparing to exercise
our academic voice
Konseptualisering van
mysaak / onderwerp
Definitiewe en
sensitiserende konsepte
Plasing van myself in
my akademiese veld
Identifisering van my/ons
diskoers gemeenskappe
Vrae...
Voorbereiding om ons
akademiese stem uit te
oefen
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Definitive vs sensitizing
concepts
"Blumer argued stridently against the use of
definitive concepts in social research. The
idea of definitive concepts is typified by theway in which, in quantitative research, a
concept, once developed, becomes fixed
through the elaboration of indicators..."
(See Bryman, 2012: 388)
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Deductive logic
Theoretical level (reading)
Operational orobservational level
Prevailingtheories orthesesFormal theoretical
language, using definitive
concepts (e.g. hypothesis)
Operational language Measurement
Verified(Carnap) /Not (yet)falsified(Popper)
Falsified
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Conceptualizing my issue
Start of research End of research
Concept
Research
proposal
Research
methods
chapter /
report
Definitive concepts (the
definition of dictionaries)
Sensitizing concepts
Denotation
(denotasie)
Connotation
(konnotasie)
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Wat is akademiese stem?
Stem het n naturalitiese verbintenis met
spreek
Maarakademiese stem is meer as die
vermo om te praat
aangeleerde vaardigheid om te praat en te
skryf
Maak aanspraak op gehoor, dws veronderstel
sosiale vermo / kapasiteit om gehoor te word
Geskrewe stem:
passiewe akademiese woordeskat
vereis 'n begrip van "my veld"
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What is academic voice?
Voice has a naturalistic association withspeech
But academic voice is not natural
Learned ability to speak and writeAssumes an audience: the social capacity to
speak and be heard (to say)
Written voice
Passive active academic vocabulary
requires a sense ofmy field
Research proposal
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What is a research proposal?
A document that forms a coherent whole (samehangende
geheel)
that constitutes an argument
manifests youracademic voice
that codifies the preliminary (voorlopige
kodifisering), but most important version of your
research design that targets an audience (gehoor)
Your tutors / lecturers (3rd Year)
your supervisor (Honours)
others?
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From the project document
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What is a literature review?
Systematic review: Formal and replicable process
Meta-analysis (quantitative)
Meta-ethnography Narrative review: critical interpretation
Not replicable, but assumes wide reading /
coverage of a sub-field or discoursecommunity
See Bryman (chapter 5)
Conceptual Framework
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Wat is n literatuuroorsig?
Sistematiese oorsig : Formele en herhaalbare proses
Meta-analise (kwantitatief)
Meta-etnografie Narratiewe oorsig: kritiese interpretasie)
Nie herhaalbaar nie, maar veronderstel wye
lees / dekking van n leesarea of diskoers-gemeenskap
Sien Bryman (hoofstuk 5)
Konseptuele raamwerk
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Maxwell (2005) Qualitative Research Design, p.123
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Literature review vs
conceptual framework
You cannot write
a literature
review in 500
words!
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Principles of selection
Is reviewing analogous to sampling?
Yes: systematic review
What are the selection principles at work
in drafting a literature review?
Systematic review: representative
Narrative review: comprehensive, but less
representative
Conceptual framework: highly selective,
vehicle for initial conceptualization
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Problem statement and
research questions
See Hernon & Schwartz
(2007), short article on
Webstudies
Research questions:
conceptual or empirical?
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Getting started: questioning
What ideas do I already have about thebroad theme? (Studying and interacting ata South African university)
Read more
Read Wikipedia?
Are there any controversies (twispunte)?
Start formulating conceptual questions
What does X mean?
How does [this writer] understand X?
Develop a sense of the field (of writers)
who have written about X
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Developing good reading habits
Activevs
passive
reading
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Active reading / Aktiewe lees
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