CMST 2B03- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 99 pages long!)

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CMST 2B03
• Professor: Philip Savage

Document Summary

Provide ways to get them to think about things that aren"t purely intellectual (09/01/17) Bryman and teavan: qualitative research usually emphasizes words rather than quantification in its data analysis. : it"s easy for people to enter. Induction versus deduction: induction which means essentially that we are putting off our attempt to theorize until we get something, not so much. Interpretation (as key epistemological approach: not so much proving things, but seeing if things relate in their reality, how we interpret how other people interpret their lives. 2: as opposed to positivism approach: we will find out what the reality is of saturn, these are big realities, while for us, the emphasis on humans, it"s a way for others to interpret their realities. Building from observation to determine: interpretations, rich description, qualitative comes up with a new range of people"s experiences of food and food anxiety. Deductive approach: look at the school, see what"s happening then you begin to theorize.