Research and Theory Flashcards
Four types of research models
- Functionalism
- Behaviourism
- Symbolic Interactionism
- Ethnomethodology
A concept tied to ethnomethodology
documentary method of interpretation
A concept tied to behaviourism
Stimulus/Response
Contextual sensitivity
recognizing that apparently uniform institutions like ‘the family’ or ‘median’ take on a variety of meanings in different contexts
two types of methodologies
Qualitative and Quantitative
The 4 steps to naturalistic research
- Enter the setting
- Establish Rapport
- Record Observations
- Present the findings
Methods
specific research techniques that are used to collect data
3 types of sensitivities that can be used to generate researchable topics
- Historical Sensitivity
- Political Sensitivity
- Contextual Sensitivity
Explanatory Orthodoxy
Research that explains certain problems
Theories provide what for research?
Impetus
What is the benefit of naturalistic research?
Representational Simplicity
Historical Sensitivity
Understanding a social problem by understanding the history of the issue
What does explanatory paradoxy come from?
the belief that individuals are puppets of social structures which reduces people’s behaviours to outcomes of certain variables like social class, gender or ethnicity
What part of the researcher can classify qualitative research?
The researcher’s orientation towards data
What is Ethnomethodology?
The study of people’s methods of constructing reality in everyday life
Problem with ethnomethodology
it risks losing sight of the topic of inquiry in the name of focusing on the process of its creation
Political Sensitivity
seeks to grasp the politics behind defining topics in particular ways, questioning how official definitions of problems arise
“How do people create meaningful categories that help them get through life” is what type of research question?
Ethnomethodological
Behaviourism
defines all behaviour in terms of stimulus and response
Functionalism
looks at the functions of social institutions
An overall framework for how we look at reality is called
Model
A concept tied to symbolic interactionism
Definition of the situation
Scholar Research
research need never to have and relations to public debates about social policy but is about the construction of knowledge
Why do we need theory to understand research?
Different theories offer ways to access different data points
