[COMS 313] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (16 pages long!)

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Scholarly research is methodological: theory based, structures, systematic, planned, objective*, scientific, focus on knowledge about reality. Methodology: the way we approach problems and understand them. Positivism: reality exists and can be known by the observer. Research conducted to observe measure, & predict empirical phenomenon & build tangible, material knowledge. Seeks facts/causes of social phenomenon; apart from subjective state of individual. Single material reality, looking for casual experiences and causes. Postpositivism: reality exists but can"t fully be measured and apprehended. Background of researcher should not affect truth. Talk about self viewed as unnecessary and indulgent. Critical theory: shaped by political, economic, and ethic influences. Knowledge about reality always mediated (through researcher) The actors own perspective and how experience the world important in understanding social phenomenon. Human activity in text (anything analyzed, read deconstructed) Positivism and constructivism require different methodologies to construct research.

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