SOC 4369 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Participatory Action Research, General Practitioner, Needs Assessment
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Basic: pure research - having academic orientation. To support or refute theories on the reason of social occurrence. Applied: offer practical solutions to a problem or address immediate needs, active practitioners are primary audience, types of applied research. Evaluation - how well a program or policy works on reaching its goals. Formative - built in monitoring or continued feedback. Actions - facilitate change or bring about a value-oriented political- social goal. Participatory action research - democratizing the knowledge creation process, reveal injustices, highlight social inequality/conflict = collective action to improve conditions. Social impact assessment - likely consequences for various areas of social life if a change is needed. Ex: building schools, prisons: tools in applied research. Needs assessment - gathers info about a need, issues including severity. Cost benefit analysis - estimating future costs and benefits of a proposed action and assigning them monetary values. Contingency evaluation - asks how much something is worth to them.
