CMST 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Delillos, Antipositivism, Dependent And Independent Variables

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CMST 2B03
• Professor: Philip Savage

Document Summary

Qualitative research usually emphasizes words rather than quanti cation in its data analysis. Words: don delillo"s underworld: rich description, for aspects of qualitative research, words v. numbers. Induction versus deduction (induction: observe rst and think of theories afterwards) Interpretation (as key epistemological approach: constructionist (as key ontological approach) Theory can be: something that precedes research (deductive, something that emerges out of research (inductive, qualitative research approach tends to be inductive, building from observation to determine: Interpretivist approach= understanding the social world by examining the participant"s interpretations their world: rejection of natural science approach to human understanding. Phenomenology: alfred schutz"s concern with how humans make sense of the world around them, subjective interpretation of the meanings of actions from the people"s point of view. Symbolic interactionism: margaret mead"s concern with how one"s self-concept emerges through appreciation of others, research approach of catching the process of interpretation through which (actors) construct their actions.