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Research and Theory Flashcards

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Four types of research models

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  1. Functionalism
  2. Behaviourism
  3. Symbolic Interactionism
  4. Ethnomethodology
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A concept tied to ethnomethodology

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documentary method of interpretation

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A concept tied to behaviourism

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Stimulus/Response

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Contextual sensitivity

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recognizing that apparently uniform institutions like ‘the family’ or ‘median’ take on a variety of meanings in different contexts

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two types of methodologies

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Qualitative and Quantitative

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The 4 steps to naturalistic research

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  1. Enter the setting
  2. Establish Rapport
  3. Record Observations
  4. Present the findings
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Methods

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specific research techniques that are used to collect data

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3 types of sensitivities that can be used to generate researchable topics

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  1. Historical Sensitivity
  2. Political Sensitivity
  3. Contextual Sensitivity
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Explanatory Orthodoxy

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Research that explains certain problems

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Theories provide what for research?

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Impetus

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What is the benefit of naturalistic research?

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Representational Simplicity

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Historical Sensitivity

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Understanding a social problem by understanding the history of the issue

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What does explanatory paradoxy come from?

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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

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What part of the researcher can classify qualitative research?

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The researcher’s orientation towards data

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What is Ethnomethodology?

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The study of people’s methods of constructing reality in everyday life

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Problem with ethnomethodology

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it risks losing sight of the topic of inquiry in the name of focusing on the process of its creation

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Political Sensitivity

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seeks to grasp the politics behind defining topics in particular ways, questioning how official definitions of problems arise

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“How do people create meaningful categories that help them get through life” is what type of research question?

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Ethnomethodological

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Behaviourism

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defines all behaviour in terms of stimulus and response

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Functionalism

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looks at the functions of social institutions

21
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An overall framework for how we look at reality is called

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Model

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A concept tied to symbolic interactionism

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Definition of the situation

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Scholar Research

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research need never to have and relations to public debates about social policy but is about the construction of knowledge

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Why do we need theory to understand research?

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Different theories offer ways to access different data points

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In qualitative research, the hypothesis might be

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induced through the research process

26
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Ethnomethodology

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Looking at people’s everyday ways of producing orderly social interation

27
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The benefit of emphasizing the rhetorical and constructive aspects of knowledge is found in what type of study?

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Ethnomethodology

28
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Example of a method

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social survey

29
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Concept

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clearly specified ideas deriving from a particular model and ways of looking at the world

30
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Divine Orthodoxy

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the belief that the social scientists is a philosopher king who can always see through peoples claims and know better than they do

31
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An arranges set of concepts that define and explain phenomena are

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theories

32
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Can theories be wrong?

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No, they also can’t be right

33
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Another term for constructivism is…

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Ethnomethodology

34
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Only by understanding a setting can we…

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modify it

35
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Partisan Research

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publicly debateable but researchers may bring too many preconceptions in

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Methodology

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a general approach to studying a research topic

37
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Symbolic Interactionalism

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focuses on how we attach symbolic meanings to interpersonal relations

38
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A concept tied to Functionalism

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Social Function

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