CRIM 321 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Data Analysis, List Of Fables Characters, Content Analysis
3 Jun 2020
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Research design - provides you with working tentative plan for how to conduct research. & ways to head of potential threats to validity of overall research findings. Details specific steps taken to answer research question. Humans rely on variety of knowledge sources to make sense of their world. For many thousands of years, societies have relied on variety of methods to understand their social world. Each culture has its own set of values & traditions providing window into understanding social world that passes down from one generation to next. Some societies privilege mystical mode of inquiry. Legitimates knowledge of those claiming access to divine/supernatural powers, whose knowledge is legitimated through their claims they are mediums who can tape into mysteries of social world & beyond. Rational mode of knowledge building - encompasses objective logic of inquiry, combined w/ unbiased systematic empirical observation & verification.
