HLTHAGE 2A03 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Antipositivism, Cohort Study, General Social Survey
21 Oct 2016
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Principles of human inquiry and doing social research. 26: tradition, people sometimes rely on tradition for knowledge. The authority of the past: authority, authority can make things seem one way when they are not truly. It occurs when a person overgeneralizes from what he or she accepts as being highly positive or prestigious and lets its strong reputation or prestige rub off onto other areas. Step 2: choose a research design: experiments, surveys, secondary research/use of existing statistics, document, textual, content, and discourse analysis, interviews and observation/ eld research, focus groups, historical-comparative research, evaluations research. Step 3: collect your data: triangulation - uses more than one method of data collection to get a rounder picture of the phenomenon. Step 4: analyze your data: data is summarized and interpreted, linked to theory and method, involves coding, transform data into raw numbers or concept to make it suitable for analysis.
