SOCI 2150Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Critical Ethnography, Nomothetic, Food Bank
Document Summary
Research design and the logic of causation: qualitative & quantitative approaches. Four purposes of research: exploration (rare in published studies, description] usually apply to quantitative and qualitative research, explanation, social change (where change is the explicit purpose, as per critical research methodologies of par/far, critical ethnography) Quantitative data in social science research: in quantitative research researchers document observations about the world in quantitative form , for the purposes of describing social phenomenon (prevalence of food insecurity in. Canadian provinces and cmas and over time): or for the purpose of explaining (to test deductively) a theory about the cause of social patterns, examples b&r pp. 78 describing vs explaining voting patterns; describing vs explaining crime rates in cities. Conceptualization: in research, conceptualization refers to the process of coming to an agreement about the meaning of something we experience or have observed but is not tangible, the result is a concept .
