SOAN 3070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Repeatability, Exploratory Data Analysis, Main Source

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 3070
• Professor: Jeji Varghese

Document Summary

Relativism: sees all truths within a particular domain, varies across different contexts, considers the different ways in which people view things. Through our personal sensory experience, authority, tradition, common sense, the media, science. Each way of knowing has advantages and disadvantages. There is a knowable reality that exists independently of the research process. Assumes objectivity of reality and the researcher. Social reality is relational and subjective and produced through the research process. Researcher and researched are collaborators in the research process. Reflexivity important tool within process (need to be conscientious as a researcher in how you are affecting the research process, need to think about your own place and your power as a researcher) Asserts that knowledge comes from information collected through the five human senses. Examples of empirical research traditions: experimentation, surveying, ethnography, phenomenology, ethnomethodology, grounded theory, case studies, biographical studies. Made to describe and/or interpret a cultural or social group.