SOC200H1 Lecture Notes - Pilot Experiment, General Idea, Longitudinal Study
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Main purposes of research design are: specifying what you want to find out, then , determining the best way to do so. Setting the stage: the purposes of pure research. Important to determine the purpose(s) for your research. There needs to be some sort of mystery there for some that you want to explore. A topic where is no research been done about the topic. For instance if you want to research about modern technology such as facebook, internet and digital divide and so fort, these topics are good for exploratory research because there is not much done about these topics. To examine a new interest and to develop a better understanding you use exploratory research because it leads to better understanding. You do not know where you go. (think about the picture on slide 5). *these research purposes mean different things to inductive vs. deductive researchers.
