CRIM 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Content Analysis, Nonprobability Sampling, Convenience Sampling
19 Nov 2016
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Separation of researcher"s values from their projects. View that social reality as something that has yet to be described and explained. Focus on objectivity: define research problem, literature review, hypothesis formulation, research design, instrumentation and sampling, data collection, data analysis, conclusions, revise hypotheses. Attempts to understand the subjective meanings that individuals give to their social worlds. Crim321 chapter 3: designing qualitative approaches to research. Qualitative explanatory context data collected, and so on. Awareness that all knowledge is affected by social conditions where it is produced. Knowledge is grounded in social location and biography of the observer and the observed. As one collects data, one interprets it and formulates a range of ideas to test out on additional. Explores social phenomenon to come up with explanations that places findings in a wider. Dynamic interaction between steps 6, 7, 3. Strong factor in guiding questions and design. Creating a research design: step by step: before beginning, reflect on own research standpoint.
