CHYS 2P35 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Born Into Brothels, Qualitative Property, Symbolic Interactionism
9 Mar 2017
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In the case of life-worlds, researchers focus on naturally emerging languages and the meanings individuals assign to experience. Life-worlds include emotions, motivations, symbols, and their meanings, empathy, and other subjective aspects associated with naturally evolving lives of individuals and groups. These elements may also represent their behavioural routines, experiences, and various conditions affecting these usual routines or natural settings. Many of these elements are directly observable and as such may be viewed as objectively measurable data. Certain elements of symbolism, meaning, or understanding usually require consideration of the individual"s own perceptions and subjective apprehensions this. On pages 25 26, berg discusses the combination of the research-before-theory enterprise and the theory-before-research enterprise. Robert merton (1968) states that research plays an active role: it performs at least four major functions, which help shape the development of theory. It initiates, it reformulates, it deflects, and it clarifies theory.
