research methods

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Ch 1. General Research Orientations
An explanation of observed regula...,
Middle range theories are limited...,
What is the relationship between ...
24  cards
Ch 2. Research Designs
A framework for the collection an...,
What is a nomothetic explanation,
Nomothetic explanations must sati...
33  cards
3. Research Ethics
Research ethics must be addressed...,
First priority of a social resear...,
Knowledge is of secondary interes...
19  cards
4. The Nature of Quantitative Research
Quantitative research entails wha...,
What kind of relationship does qu...,
Quantitative research has a prefe...
35  cards
5. Survey Research: Interviews & Questionnaires
One of the most significant consi...,
What are the advantages of open q...,
What are the disadvantages of ope...
30  cards
Ch 6. Structured Observation
Based on explicit rules for obser...,
The rules for observation and for...,
A kind of observation research us...
20  cards
Ch 15. Writing Up Social Research
What is probably as important as ...,
In writing research what two thin...,
The writings of social scientists...
13  cards
Experiments: Name and Study
Merton s theory of anomie influen...,
Cook and campbell 1979 outline so...,
Bikos conducted an inductive stud...
8  cards
Ch 7. Quantitative Sampling
The selection of a subset of a po...,
Two main types of sampling,
Three sources of bias in sampling
19  cards
Ch 8. Quantitative Data Analysis
The biggest mistake in quantitati...,
How do we handle it when a respon...,
Three types of variables levels o...
17  cards
Ch 9. The Nature of Qualitative Research
Qualitative research is concerned...,
Immersed in the social setting ki...,
In depth semi structured or unstr...
22  cards
Ch 10. Ethnography & Participant Observation
A study of people and their cultu...,
Behaviour is observed in an unstr...,
Is an observational part of ethno...
32  cards
Ch 11. Interviewing in Qualitative Research
What is the most widely used meth...,
Ethnography usually involves a su...,
What are the two main types of qu...
27  cards
Ch 12. Content Analysis
Documents can be any source of da...,
Scott s 1990 criteria for assessi...,
Examples of personal documents
31  cards
Ch 13. Qualitative Data Analysis
What are general strategies of qu...,
Basic operations in qualitative d...,
A general research question is de...
33  cards
Ch 14. Bridging the Quantitative/Qualitative Divide
Quantitative and qualitative rese...,
Drawing on the insights of multip...,
Certain epistemological and ontol...
13  cards

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