SLGY 3323 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Post-Structuralism, Social Fact, Homeless Shelter
29 Sep 2017
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Interpretation the personal, subjective way people perceive and respond to social experiences. how a researcher understands an action/reaction/interaction. Interpretation requires that the researcher describe their background o experiences brought to the project to illustrate how they made certain connections in the project to the audience. Quantitative attempts to gather data or to test a proposed hypothesis by o administering some kind of test/treatment to humans and then comparing their outcomes statistically. Qualitative depends primarily on words and images as empirical materials for reflection and analysis. analyses can vary from descriptive accounts of human action to critical commentary on social observations. Ethnography methods of studying and documenting the culture of a group of people o . Case study focus on a single unit (one person, one group, one event, etc) o . Relies on separate interviews with a small group of people (10) to assess their variability.
