HST250H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Thermodynamic Cycle, Ethnomethodology, Feminist Theory
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Critical research: rooted in the assumption that inequality is rooted in exploitative social relations. Action research: primary focus to engage marginalized individuals in a research aimed to empower them. Systematic collection and analysis of data for the purpose of making change. Requirements: educative, deals with individuals as members of a social group, problem- focused, change intervention, improvement and involvement, cyclic process, founded on a research relationship. Institutional ethnography: approach used when research goal is to study social reality as it is conducted. Steps in action research process: entry into community and development, assessment of situation and issue, planning for research and action, implementation of action plan, evaluation of implementation, report and re-assessment, planning future action. Feminist theory believed to emerge from critical approach. Reflexivity: critical thinking required to examine interaction occurring. Nonreactive studies: indirect data collection research; not gathered from people directly. Secondary data analysis: analyses of data that have been collected for some purpose.
