SCMA*2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Content Analysis, Social Capital, Relativism
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It"s a lot more straight forward the internet - archives are available: surveys most of the time you need approval, use numbers in your family. What is theory: basically when an expert in a field has researched a topic so much that they have come up with theories. Pierre - talked about way human society work: social relationships are seen as a social capital, theorists also use theoretical framework. Determine the type of answers you get: when you get numbers from a research project that"s quantitative, ask the right questions to reduce those answers. Doing content or comparative analysis: what are the qualities of a good research question, need to be clear, debatable questions, debate with academics, so what factor. Intent is to produce something that you can take such as numbers to compare people: design your design to produce numbers, code questions according to numbers, types of answers are limited at the end of the day.