SOCL 2211 Study Guide - Final Guide: Institute Of Historical Research, Data Quality, Participatory Action Research
Document Summary
Other data-gathering strategies in the social sciences: list the major data-gathering strategies in addition to the big three. Physical traces: define secondary analysis and describe its strengths and weaknesses. Secondary analysis or to answer a different research question than intended by those who collected the data. : a method of using preexisting data in a different way. Major sources: us bureau of the census, bureau of labor statistics, eurobarometer survey statistics. Advantages: saves time and money, allows the researcher to avoid data collection problems, allow analyses of social processes in other inaccessible settings, may allow data from multiples studies to be combined. Challenges: does not allow researcher to design a study that reflects his/her problem, data quality issues, be familiar enough to match terms with the other strategies. : involves a process that examines events or. : the systematic, objective, quantitative analysis of message characteristics. combinations of events in order to uncover accounts of what happened in the past.
