CHYS 1F90 Lecture Notes - Meritocracy, Cultural Capital, Social Inequality

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Final lecture: mini lecture on research with children, review. Ii/ choosing a strategy: eg: imagine you are studying bullying between students in elementary school: what do you want to know? how will you find out, broader, underlying questions. Even how you organize your questions can make a difference Positivism: objective: looking at things from a distance. There is a truth, we need to uncover it: independent of our opinion, static, stable, categorization. Power: statistical power: enough sample size (power) to get reliable results. To be reliable results: increases reliability , results are reliable , we tested what we thought we were testing and the results reliably represent the phenomena we were studying. Implications of quantitative research: policy, policy makers, school boards, influences curriculum, policies, special education, etc, product companies (advertizing, marketing, etc. , coke vs pepsi, companies need large n . Iv/ qualitative research (rebecca: link to interpretivism: assumes people experience the world differently from each other.

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