GGR277H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Subgroup Analysis, Structured Interview, Official Statistics
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Set of data sources: leters, diaries, autobiographies, newspapers, television shows, websites, photographs etc. 4 criteria for assessing the quality of documents: Some pages in a leter or diary may be missing or damaged. The writer must have used abbreviaions or codes that are diicult to decipher. Potenial to reveal important informaion about families for social researchers. What is not photographed awareness of what is not photographed can reveal the. Photographs play a variety of roles in social research. They can be used in qualitaive research, as well as quesionnaires and as prompts in connecion with an experiment. Survey research: a research design in which data are collected from respondents, mainly by quesionnaire or structured interview; typically, the data are then examined to detect relaionships among variables. Structured observaion: a research method in which the researchers follow explicitly formulated rules regarding not only what they should look for, but when and where, and how they should record what they have observed.
