CCT208H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Toronto Police Service, Toronto Star, Social Impact Assessment
10 Dec 2016
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Academic social research: research designed to advance fundamental knowledge about the social world. research direction: how the social world operates, what causes things happen, why social relations are a certain way and why society changes. Primary consumer: scientific community good side: -provides the source of most of the tools, methods, theories and ideas for applied researchers to analyze basic causes of people"s actions or thinking. Long term impact. (50 or 100 years) Bad side: lacks practical application in the short term. Primary consumer: practitioners (e. g. , teachers, social workers) or decision makers (e. g. , mangers, agency administrators) good side: applicable. Bad side: less likely widely disseminated, results may not be used wisely (e. g. , toronto star v. s. Research is part of a job and is assessed by scientists make the judgments funders who may be outside the disciplines of social science and not scientists themselves. Research topics are selected based upon intellectual interests problems identified by funders.
