2.3 Research Issues -Case Studies Flashcards

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Jessop’s Governance and Metagovernance: on Reflexivity, Requisite Variety and Requisite Irony

topic choice

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fit for an acamdemic audience, would make no sense to a non-academic audience.

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Kessler

quantitative data

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study of the relationship between sponsorship and small business performance, where the main aim was to test whether ‘those who are sponsored are more successful than non-sponsored individuals

good example for using quantitative methods to extract reliable data to establish statistical relationships

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Rosenhan

ethical issues: tricking people into cooperation

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suspected that doctors could not accurately diagnose schizophrenia and sent students displaying false symptoms into hospitals to test his hypothesis

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Milgram

ethical issue: experimenting on unsuspecting people -causing distress

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study of authority, -respondents were convinced they were giving electric shocks to ‘learners’ whenever the learners gave an incorrect answer to a question. while no shocks were given and the ‘victims’ were pretending to react, some respondents broke down in the face of the pain they believed they were causing.

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