WGS202H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Content Analysis, Focus Group
13 Apr 2017
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How to formulate, choose a topic, focus topic in a way that is manageable and doable. Make 2 questions , choose audience and make questionnaire. All things want to know become questionnaire needs to consist of open ended questions. 3 important concepts: epistemology = theory of knowing gives us a lense in order to understand a phenomenon (e. g. from glass of water to nature, etc). humans are knowledge producing animals. They also know they are producing knowledge and they reflect/criticize their production of knowledge: the study of the ways knowledge is produced. Epistemologists do not take b. knowledge as the starting point, nor as the origin. Process of knowing way researched produced knowledge about object of study: methodology how research is done or should proceed. There are two very broad and long methodology (qualitative and quantitative: qualitative varied (interviews, secondary data collection, participatory, content analysis, focus group, etc, quantitative.
