POLS 3180 Lecture 14: POLS 3180 oct 29.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 3180
• Professor: Edward Koning

Document Summary

Going into research with a lot of theory (cid:224) influenced by rosenthal effect, bias going into research, focusing on only certain aspects: gatekeepers control whether you get access or not, key players in an organization, striking bargains with research subjects, no other sol"n except for undercover entry (cid:224) subjects change their behaviour bc of reactivity, ethical guidelines being crossed committee may make an exception bc of the importance of the research, non probability samples snowball, convenience, purposive, convenience samples cannot make generalized claims, purposive samples study the most imp people, covering the most imp basis, physical space maps, studying the setting of an area (i. e. house of commons in.