CMNS 262- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 49 pages long!)

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMNS 262
• Professor: Daniel Ahadi

Document Summary

Research is about our encounter with the world. Encounter with the world and how we represent that encounter: encounter, document, observation, conversation, textual analysis, conclusions made, representation. Qualitative research can be unpredictable because world is unstable place; cab be pulled in different directions while you do research. Methodology: how data is gathered and analyzed (statistics or impressions?) Last week: where qualitative research makes its intervention in society. Truth, knowledge, etc. are discovered, made known, reinforced, and changed by members of society. When we say that something is socially constructed, we are subscribing to the following reason: In present state of affairs, x is taken for granted; x appears to be inevitable: x need not have existed, or need to be at all as it is. O(cid:272)ial (cid:272)o(cid:374)st(cid:396)u(cid:272)ts a(cid:396)e(cid:374)"t (cid:374)e(cid:272)essa(cid:396)il(cid:455) good o(cid:396) (cid:271)ad; (cid:449)e (cid:272)(cid:396)eate s(cid:272)he(cid:373)as i(cid:374) ou(cid:396) (cid:373)i(cid:374)d to si(cid:373)plif(cid:455) the (cid:449)o(cid:396)ld. Depends on the context and time of its use.