2.3 Research Issues -Case Studies

Question 1

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

topic choice

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Kessler

quantitative data

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Rosenhan

ethical issues: tricking people into cooperation

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Milgram

ethical issue: experimenting on unsuspecting people -causing distress

Answer 4

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.