CHYS 2P51 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Railways Act 1921, Content Analysis, Thick Description
1 Apr 2017
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On multiple choice midterm: unobtrusive research, case studies, content analysis. Born into brothels: immersing herself into the culture. Cock fight was metaphorical to the country of bali. Understanding human nature and the meaning behind behaviour. Assumption that the researcher will report a variety of perspectives. Involves the qualitative study of a real life contemporary bounded system (context, setting) Develop an in depth understanding of a single individual, group, subject, setting, event, set of documents. Explore an issue or problem using the case as an illustration. Gather enough information about the phenomena to effectively understand how it operates or functions. Simple and focused, or complex and broad. Taught himself to read, skipped grades, taught himself theoretical physics, calculus, etc. You expect him to be well published, good degree, good job, but he doesn"t. No one would give him a job. Malcom gladwell wanted to look into this. Transmission: unprotected sex, contaminated needles, breast milk, prenatal transmission.
