CMNS 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hypodermic Needle, Praxeology, Theoretical Definition

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMNS 260
• Professor: Frederik Lesage

Document Summary

Part two: elements of research design (quantitative and qualitative) Revisit to 8 important questions to ask when approaching research design to understand what paradigm informs that design (see from last week). Keywords included: social research; different dimensions of research; theory, concepts. We spoke about the difference between deductive and inductive, and where theory lies in this (inductive starts with empirical generalizations and then arrives at theory; deductive starts with a hypothesis before research). Goal: make students research literate. " one way of doing this is looking at/making connections between readings and actual research. We"re going to look at generation m squared (2010) case study (full study available as pdf on canvas). When reading through studies, should look at different clues (authors, subject, concepts) to find the social theory/approach used. This particular study is about american kids and their exposure to media. For this study: report is based on study of 3rd-12th grade students, ages 8-