SA 255 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Downtown Eastside, Graffiti, Cognitive Dissonance
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Methodology how to think about them (methods) The two methods have different strengths: kind of like comparing religion and science. You will need different methods as a researchers. Queen e park picture: very manicured, plants from all over the world in one space. Kind of like a language (different rules, meanings, and exemptions) Takes doing in order to actually learn it. Methods are tools that can be applied to any particular problem (good or bad: downtown eastside picture. Words written on building (e. g. commit, hope, dream, share, etc. ) Having a grander idea of why you would want to use methods. Being emotionally driven and passionate about something. Mixed methods: these are all paradigms, paradigm techniques and tools with philosophical components. Epistemology: how and why we know things, philosophical. Time is very important in how it changes atmospheres. Night can be more populated and busier. Record with your phone (a new qualitative method) Quantitative methods: census introduced a mandatory component.