Mid term review Flashcards
What is the study that comes from the Greek word meaning to be/being, questioning what is reality?
Ontology
What element of the paradigm is considered tip of the iceberg?
Methods
What are the 9 steps for research?
1.) Choose a topic, 2.) review literature, 3.)formulate the problem, 4.)develop the research question, 5.) choose and organise the research design, 6.) gather the data, 7.)analyze the data, 8.)interpret the data, 9.)communicate the findings
What methods and techniques are used in library research?
Methods: Analysis of historical records and documents, Techniques: Statistical compilation, referent and abstract guides, content analysis, tape/film listening analysis
What methods and techniques are used in field research?
Methods: Group/focus/personal interviews, surveys, questionairres, participant/mass/non-direct participant observation Techniques: observational scales, recording mass behaviour, interviews, cross sectional collection of data
What methods and techniques are used in lab research?
Methods: small group of random behaviour play and role analysis Techinques - use of recording devices and use of observers
What is research methodology?
“the science of systematically answering a research
question
What is ontology?
From the Greek word ‘to study’ - what is reality? Eg: what is the purpose of life?
What are objectivism and subjectivism?
Objectivism: reality exists independently of consciousness, meaning things are what they are regardless of individual beliefs or feelings. Subjectivism: reality is shaped or determined by perceptions, beliefs, or feelings, with no objective reality outside of individual consciousness
What is epistemology?
The study of knowledge - questions of how we know what is.
What is a paradigm?
A way of viewing the world. A set of ideas used to understand something.
What is an interpretivist paradigm?
Researchers aim to understand as social actors - research among people, as opposed to objects
What is Positivism?
Positivism operates Objectivity and Deductive logic - assumes society can be studied empiraclly and scientifically.
What is Critical Paradigm?
It is about social change, power and equity - social science can never be value free and should have the goal of social change
What is social constructivism?
Truth as varying - reality is created collectively- social context frames our reality
What is Post Modernism?
Truth in any form may be knowable or not knowable.
