CCT208H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Research Question, Nomothetic, Symbolic Interactionism
4 Dec 2017
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What something means to people (qualitative approach) How two things relate to each other (quantitative, positivist approach) People don"t pull research questions out of the air. They pull research questions based on what people have written about the topic and they speak to existing literature, build on it, and enhance it. If researchers don"t ask an important questionthe research will always lack importance. It doesn"t matter if someone does a great job of collecting and analyzing data, if that data does not speak to something important, interesting, or useful. Research questions are what drive and underline research. If you don"t have a good question, you cannot have good research. One thing i learned by editing sociology of education. Most of the papers that i read had one or both of two basic problems: first, a larger percentage of papers had fundamental research design flaws .
