Representations & Quantitative/Qualitative Sources Flashcards
media
means of communication (TV, art, newspapers) that reach or influence people widely
objective
not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts
qualitative data
information that non-numerical and used in an unstructured/open-ended way e.g. interviews, artist depictions photographs
quantitative data
data that can be quantified and verified, amenable to statistical manipulation
subjective
based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes or opinions
counter-mapping
a bottom-up process by which people create their own maps informed by own local knowledge and understanding of places
biomapping
mapping of emotions shown by people to certain places through a device that records the wearers Galvanic Skin Response (GSR)
ethnography
research method that explores what people do as well as say e.g. ethnographer would participate in daily life of that person
types of sources
statistics, maps, interviews, media, graffiti, architecture
2 factors when looking at secondary data
reliability (subjectivity), provenance (context)
investigating locale and location
OS maps (old/new), street maps, books/atlases/newspapers, local history society, internet, official government websites (census data/local health statistics)
investigating demographic characteristics
census every 10 years, socio-economic data (employment, crime, health), the Office for National Statistics, the Local Government Association, LG Inform Plus, geospatial data
investigating economic characteristics
levels of employment/unemployment, balance between 3 economic sectors, GDHI estimates, house prices, access to services
GDHI
gross disposable household income estimates
Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD)
UK government qualitative study measuring deprivation at small-area level across England, shows economic inequality between/within places
