SOCECOL 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Normal Distribution, Human Capital, Grounded Theory
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Key topics in qualitative research: mechanisms and meaning (goals, cases critical, normal, deviant, observation vs. participation (methods, ethnography vs. ethnomethodology (approaches, in depth interviews (method, key informants, grounded theory (method) Mechanisms and meaning: motivating qualitative research. Meaning: how do different individuals and groups understand and/or experience ________? ex. Natural resources institutions (e. g. , democratic, authoritarian) infrastructure ( roads, water, sewer, power) colonial history. Policies (international trade, income redistribution: problem: many variables, few cases, fewer strong patterns case types critical, normal, deviant, normal case: getting inside a case that represents others well. Middletown : deviant case: something that violates a theory. How do social revolutions happen if societies in general tend toward stability: critical case: an example particularly important to test a theory extreme values are important to understand how theories make predictions. Moving through the research circle with a qualitative question: 1. name the problem. How did mcallen and reynosa both grow so much faster than.
