Professional Documents
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RESEARCH
• DIMENSION: A VARIABLE PROPERTY
OR QUALITY
• QUANTITATIVE, CONTINUED
– SURVEYS
• THE MOST COMMON FORM OF SOCIOLOGICAL
RESEARCH
• INVOLVES ADMINISTERING A QUESTIONNAIRE TO A
POPULATION OR SAMPLE
– CONTENT ANALYSIS – OF ‘SYMBOLIC MATERIAL’
– EXISTING STATISTICS – ANALYSIS OF
PREVIOUSLY-COLLECTED DATA
DATA COLLECTION, CONTINUED
• QUALITATIVE DATA
– FIELD RESEARCH (OR PARTICIPANT
OBSERVATION)
• GROUNDED THEORY APPROACH
• RECONSTRUCTION APPROACH
– HISTORICAL-COMPARATIVE RESEARCH
• DATA: ARCHIVES (MEETING NOTES, MINUTES,
LETTERS, ETC.), MEMOIRS, BOOKS,
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES, INTERVIEW
TRANSCRIPTS, ETC.