Summary: Social Research Methodology

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• 1 Module 1

• 1.2 Kennisclips

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• The first step in the research process is research question!

  - motivation and relevance:
   a scientific puzzle or focus on pratical implications for society or particular stakeholders
  - type of questions: 
  Exploratory study
  Descriptive study
  Explanatory study
  Evaluative study    
  - Q influences all other phases of research process
  which literature are you going to search for
  research design?
  which analyses
  conclusions  and recommendations

• how is an explorative question formulated?

  An inventory, when you dont know alot about the topic

• how is a descriptive question formulated?

  You know a few things about the topic, how people perceive for example. You have a clear view of the definition

• What is academic social research

  In an university or faculty of social sciences. It is systematic (follows a step by step plan), transparant (checkable) and empirical (evidence from data ultimately decides). 

• What is the difference between everyday research and scientific research

  Attention to these steps, particularly to the ideas and intellectual traditions of the social sciences (their theories and concepts), is what distinguishes academic social research from other kinds of social research

• Three points of scientific management

  - systematic: deliberate planning, following clear research process. 
  - the contrast is: intuituve or ad hoc which can lead to confirmation bias.  
  
  -   Transparant: verifiable, controlable, being open for critisism: clarification and reflection about how one has establisched certain knowledge
  - contrast: dogmatic and not transparant
  
  -   Empirical evidence (the data) ultimate decides (vc, speculation)
  - contrast: between empiricism (gathering knowledge via observation) and rationalism (gathering knowledge via reasoning)

• The messiness of social research

  Point 3 till 6 in (mostly qualative research) is a messy process. You can go back to different steps to change certain points. 
  
  -Reflexivity, not recipes, is the hallmark of the good social science researcher

• Which sides are induction or deduction

  Right= deduction, from ideas to collecting data
  left= induction

• What is iterative strategy

  Weaving back and forth between data and theory
  
  iteration= repetition. After some theoretical reflection about the data and evidence, the researcher is gathering more data to refine or retest the theory
  
  this strategy is often used in grounded theory. Within this approach, one starts with emperical (=oberservations)

• 1.3 Hoofdstuk studieboek

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• What is an epistemological position?

  Views about how knowledge should be produced. (study of knowledge) They raise questions about how the social world should be studied