SA 255 Study Guide - Final Guide: Conversation Analysis, Sampling Frame, Longitudinal Study

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 255
• Professor: Samantha May

Document Summary

How to select appropriate secondary resources for your research: > this will determine what documents you look at. What and how you want to know. Manifest content: literal meaning or what is actually on the page, not what is says. Quantitative counting: measuring certain things in a document. = not objective source of info- source of deeper latent meaning that is subject to interpretation. Relationship between doc, social structure, class relations, ideology and power-> area discourse analysis- concerns the way in which language construct meaning to the social world. Foucault-texts= reveal mechanisms of social power in capitalist societies. Citizen for downplay importance of social structure in the creation of documents, text, and discourse. A doc- doc source of info about a particular topic- when recorded in some way. Interviews, surveys, diaries, photographs, eyewitness accounts, objects, original policy memos. Crt: direct video or interviews to give voice to the people of study. Int: womens magazine as blueprint of feminine identity.