SSCI 2920U Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Alice Goffman, Disclose, The Digital Age
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Whatever your topic is, it must be broken down and specific aims, objectives, or research questions formulated. Research questions can often come from talking to those people whose daily lives bring them into contact with the topic. Tips for good research objectives and/or questions (3) They should be clear, intelligible, and unambiguous. Capable of being researched through data collection. To explore a process: what happened overtime, types of data and data collection methods. Using existing qualitative research data that has been archived. Exists independently of the research (e. g. , texts, interactions, behaviours) Data created specifically through the research process in an interaction between research and participant. Were most interested in looking at the ways people explain a situation in their own perspective. How they create their own narrative: determine sampling strategy and time-lines. Social actors are not predictable like objects so attempting to produce random samples aimed at generalizability are inefficient. Non-probability sampling (nps) is the best approach.
