CO SCI 136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Literature Review, Focus Group, Scientific Method
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After discussing the relevance of theory, we explain what is a theoretical framework, which you will need to include in your exam paper. Also bring an academic article to the seminar and be ready to explain to a classmate what is the literature review and the theoretical framework. Multi-paradigmatic: three dominat paradigms, positivist/scientific, critical. Multi-disciplinary (or post-disciplinary: at crossroads of humanities and social sciences, theoretical, data and digitalization: interdisciplinary and institutional changes. Our study -> larger part of and social aspect of celebrity scandals, how is the structure of our media landscape influencing this (outwards). Savage & burrows (2007): big data empirical crisis. Both sample survey & in-depth interview are increasingly dated research methods. In the early 21st century social data is now so routinely gathered and disseminated (), that the role of sociologists in generating data is now unclear.
