CRI350H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ethnography, Juvenile Delinquency, Focus Group
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Ask open ended, descriptive questions rather than test specific hypotheses or. Seeks to describe the world and/or refine theoretical concepts & constructs. Qualitative methods differ from quantitative methods that start w/ observations of the world, then generate questions & testable hypotheses, and the design to tests to evaluate those hypotheses. Describing the importance of qualitative methods, m. desmond says. To break w/ everyday presuppositions and to construct a sound scientific object: these are the first & most fundamental steps of all analytic endeavors, together forming an essential prelude to social scientific inquiry . Sometimes scholars can take for granted what constitutes their object of inquiry ex. Qualitative research frequently helps us refocus what exactly it is we"re studying. M. desmond"s rich qualitative work on expanded our conceptual understanding of poverty in the united states. His qualitative analysis of poverty in a midwestern american city expanded our understanding of eviction and its role in the reproduction of urban poverty.
