FRHD 3070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Discourse Analysis
31 May 2018
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NON-REACTIVE QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
• Appropriate research questions
o Addressing big questions
o Examining combinations of social factors that produce a specific outcome
o Comparing entire social systems
• Logic
o Quantitative research
▪ Positivist
• Probabilistic causal generalizations
o Interpretive research
▪ Critical
• Empathetic understanding
• Historical research approach
o Similarities to field research
▪ Researcher’s perspective
▪ Approach to data
▪ Theory and data
▪ Present findings
▪ Actions/structure
▪ Laws/generalization
o Differences to field research
▪ Evidence
▪ Distortion
▪ Human role
▪ Causes
▪ Macro/micro
▪ Cross contexts
• Historical research process
o Conceptualizing inquiry object
▪ Framework of assumptions, concepts and theory
o Locating evidence
▪ Indexes, catalogues, reference works
o Evaluating evidence quality
▪ Relevance?
▪ Accuracy?
o Organizing evidence
▪ Theoretical insights
o Synthesizing
▪ General explanatory model
o Report writing
▪ Tell a story
• Historical evidence
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