SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Scientism, Ethnography, Participant Observation
12 Apr 2016
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Key: beyond neutrality to social justice, neutrality is compromised when researchers work within the existing dominant power structures that create and reproduce injustices, inequities and inequalities. Critical research strategies involve researchers: taking the idea of the marginalized, eg. If you want to find out about poverty you would ask the people who are living in poverty, not the middle class or the upper class: critiquing structures that subordinate them. Questions assumptions and discuss alternatives goal: a methodological and theoretical procedure, to understand how the everyday experiences of marginalized people are shaped by social and economic factors, fits well with c. w. Its artificial, rarely can study real-life concepts or processes because it"s a laboratory setting. Sometimes unethical to control the variable you are interested in. Field experiments experimental designs constructed in real-life settings where the variables of interest are more likely to occur naturally. Random selection every person in the population of interst has an equal chance of selection.
