BACH4056 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Literature Review, Informed Consent, Data Analysis

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Behavioural and Community Health Science
• Course: BACH4056
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Academic research to do with social scientific fields. Understanding people,behaviour, interactions, antecedents, outcomes, structures: helps understand the world. Scientific approach to social research qualitative, quantitative. Stages of the research process: literature review, concepts and theories research question/s, sampling cases, data collection, data analysis, writing up. Let"s talk about the nature of research Qualitative and quantitative are not distinct (dabbs 1982, cited in berg 2004) Notion that quantitative is measurable and qualitative is not. Grounded theory (inductive) theory from the data: quant: Variation and variables: attributes, things that vary. Qualitative methods: qualitative research involves disciplined inquiry. Experience, behaviours, and the meaning we ascribe them. Can be individual or group focused: qualitative research can provide knowledge. Understanding of complex issues and social constructs. Meanings and interpretation of experiences contextual information for quantitative data. Which method/s and when: before choosing a method,you must know: What do you want to know: the research question/s, hypothesis, theory building.