CHYS 2P51 Lecture 2: CHYS 2P51- Jan 17

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 2P51
• Professor: Lauren Mc Namara

Document Summary

Study of how people make sense of things. Investigating underlying meanings, patterns and relationships in social phenomena. Theory: higher paid teachers are more satisfied than lower paid counterparts. Experiment: measure teacher satisfaction among a sample of high/low payed teachers. Analysis: higher paid teachers are not more satisfied than lower paid counterparts. Born with= not much you can do to change it, so you do not apply effort. Norms, patterns, routines, beliefs, associations, connotations of a particular community/society. Ex: food and eating patterns, attitudes and perceptions about weight and health, smoking. Assumption that there are many different beliefs, perspectives, interpretations about what reality is. Intention to report these multiple realities: epistemological. Researchers assume the proximity (being as close as possible to the subject) = knowledge: axiological. Assumption that all researchers bring values to a study. Qualitative researchers are expected to make these values known. Make explicit values and biases: methodological. Assumption in qualitative research: inductive, emerging, shaped by researcher, flexible.