Sociology 2206A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Winnowing, Fallacy, Teleology

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2206A/B
• Professor: William Marshall

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Soft data in the form of impressions, words, sentences, photos, symbols. Hard data in the form of numbers. Your first step when beginning a research project is to select a topic: there is no formula for this, best guide is to conduct research on something that interests you. They use this to guide the study before they collect any data. Typical research questions for qualitative research includes: how did a certain condition originate? , what are the processes by which a situation changes, develops or operates? . Quantitative researchers focus on a specific research problem within a broad topic: e. g. your personal experience might suggest a study of immigrants. Immigrants is a topic, not a research question or problem. Before proceeding to design a research project, you must barrow and focus the topic e. g. how much has canadian immigration policy contributed to racial inequality by creating barriers to skilled jobs for immigrants? .