BACH4056 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-8: Social Fact, Research Question

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Behavioural and Community Health Science
• Course: BACH4056
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Organise the project and give it direction and coherence. Point to methods and data that will be needed. Methodological issue of whether interview responses are to be treated as giving direct access to. Experience" and feelings or as actively constructed narratives involving activities which themselves demand analysis-holstein and gubrium 1995. Positivism treats social facts as existing independently of the activities of both participants and researchers. In qual research we tend to study how phenomena are constructed in people"s everyday activities-constructivism. Eg: how family members construct stories about their grief and recovery process after the death of their baby-note words construct. Lit reviews provides relevant material and suggests appropriate methodologies and data collection. Where does your study fit in relation to other relevant literature. How will your research move beyond what is already known. Contextual sensitivity: the recognition that apparently uniform institutions like family, tribe or science take on a variety of meanings in different contexts.