SOAN 2120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Time Point, Content Analysis, Moral Panic
10 Feb 2015
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Personal experience: e. g. seeing is believing have been forever . Common sense: e. g. what just makes sense . Media myths: e. g. tv, movies, newspaper, magazines. Tradition: e. g. accepting something is true because it"s the way things. Social research: a process in which people combine a set of principles, outlooks and ideas with a collection of specific practices, techniques and strategies to produce knowledge. Limitations: overestimating their knowledge, authorities may not agree, they may speak on fields they know little about, inexperience in an authorized field. Limitations: can be distorted, what was once true may not be anymore. Limitations: logical fallacies, contradictory ideas, contains errors, misinformation, contradiction and prejudice. Limitations: perpetuate myths of a culture, moral panic, lying for ratings/money, perpetuates general myths (e. g. astrology, ufos) Data: the empirical evidence or information that one gathers carefully according to rules or procedures. Qualitative: expressed as words, visual images, sounds or objects.
