GGR271H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Research Question, Participant Observation, Deeper Understanding
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Conceptualizaion stage: inappropriate assumpions (ex: trying to prove a non-exising cause/efect) not supported by previous research or theory, research quesion too broad or too narrow, research already done or too obvious. Research design and methods: inappropriate to answer quesions. Write-up: writen indings do not match indings accurately, ex: may ind impacts of planning, demographics, address, etc. , but write-up only focuses on planning and downplays the importance of less tangible social factors. Ethics: research approach may turn out unethical, or may be perceived as unethical. Remain humble, realize that you are fallible. Some populaions are hard to access (ex: paients: paricipant observaion. The voice of the researcher/ethnographer should be observed. Methods and write-up can suggest tone, poliics, and subjecivity. Should try to stay objecive, or acively menion own biases: atriion in longitudinal studies ex: looked at habitual users of an accident and emergency clinic.