SOC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Participatory Action Research, Symbolic Interactionism, Participant Observation

• School: Irvine Valley College
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1
• Professor: brown

Document Summary

Participatory action research: participatory action research (par) brings together two approaches: action research and participatory research. Action research is designed to effect change, which may come in the form of a new social policy, modifications to an existing policy, or other changes to the lives of disadvantaged people. In action research, though, there is no commitment to involve members of the concerned group or population in the design and implementation of the research project. Participatory research does not necessarily have an action component, but it does invite concerned individuals to be part of a project"s design and execution. Participatory action research (par) puts these two traditions together. In other words, par projects have both an action component and a collaborative component: an example of participatory action research is found in the work that michelle. Fine and maria elena torre (2006) have done on a college program within a women"s maximum security prison.