APA 2534 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Official Statistics, Mass Media, Ecological Fallacy

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Human Kinetics
• Course: APA 2534
• Professor: Marijke Taks

Document Summary

Observation research: participant or non-participant, structured or unstructured observation. Other unobtrusive measures: documents, personal, governmental, official documents of private sources, mass media outputs, virtual outputs, official statistics: physical traces, archives. Can include the following: lette(cid:396)s, dia(cid:396)ies, auto(cid:271)iog(cid:396)aphies, ne(cid:449)spape(cid:396)s, tele(cid:448)isio(cid:374) p(cid:396)ograms, we(cid:271)sites, photog(cid:396)aphs. Credibility: free from error or distortion, factually accurate. Representativeness: typical of what it is supposed to represent. Photographs can be: used to illustrate points, sources of data, used as prompts to get people to talk. What is the social context of photographs: family photographs are often taken at special occasions, 3 types: idealized (formal), natural, demystified (scott, 1990) Representativeness: typical of the event or episode depicted, what is not photographed may be very significant. Selection biases (filtering: what is chosen to be photographed, what is chosen to be kept. Government docs: p(cid:396)odu(cid:272)e (cid:373)u(cid:272)h (cid:395)ua(cid:374)titati(cid:448)e statisti(cid:272)al i(cid:374)fo(cid:396)(cid:373)atio(cid:374) fo(cid:396) researchers, i(cid:374)(cid:272)lude (cid:272)e(cid:374)sus i(cid:374)fo(cid:396)(cid:373)atio(cid:374), (cid:448)oti(cid:374)g (cid:396)e(cid:272)o(cid:396)ds, offi(cid:272)ial (cid:396)epo(cid:396)ts, hansard, etc, c(cid:396)edi(cid:271)ilit(cid:455), (cid:396)ep(cid:396)ese(cid:374)tati(cid:448)e(cid:374)ess, a(cid:374)d (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)g a(cid:396)e sometimes at issue.