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Soc 300 Final
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Analyzing Qualitative Data Process | collect data; prepare data; manage data; identify concepts, patterns and relationships; draw or evaluate conclusions |
| Analyzing Quantitative Data Process | collect data; code data; data entry; descriptive analysis; data cleaning; cross-tab analysis; testing relationships |
| Collecting data | questions affect how you collect data |
| prepare data | transcribe, put in one place, systematic |
| manage data | coding for attributes/shattering it, start figuring out what it is |
| identify concepts, patterns and relationships | coding, memo-writing, data displays/data maps |
| data displays/data maps | taxonomy and typology |
| taxonomy | system of classification that is usually ordered in some way |
| typology | representation of findings based on cross-classification of two or more concepts, variables, or ideas |
| coding | assign numerical codes to qualitative responses, should preserve actual meaning and variation |
| data entry | process of transferring coded response into an electronic base, codebook |
| draw or evaluate conclusions | member checking-remember its your respondents; stories that you're telling |
| Journal Impact Factor | measure reflecting yearly average number of citations to recent articles published in that journal; frequently used as proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field |
| Disadvantages of JIF | incomplete journal coverage (only English and online), bias against smaller specialty areas, inaccurate half-life citation ratings from most sociology journals, have to pay for it to be indexed, goes up even if its being cited because its bad/proven wrong |
| major categories of existing data analysis | public documents/official records, mass media, physical/nonverbal materials, social science data archives |
| strengths of existing data analysis | may minimize Hawthorne effect, less expensive |
| limitations of existing data analysis | your hands are tied, selective survival and selective deposit |
| selective survival | some objects/things survive longer than others |
| selective deposit | systematic biases in the content of existing data |
| historical comparative analysis | type of existing data analysis, development of causal explanations of social change by describing and comparing historical processes with and across cases |
| sociology vs historians | sociologists try to understand causes of revolutions; historians try to understand sequence or cycle of stages through which revolutions unfold |
| Historical comparative analysis process | specify analytic framework, select cases and compile case studies, conduct cross-case analysis, conduct within-case analysis, develop causal explanation, apply to case studies |
| narrative comparison | analyze narratives of cases to develop a causal pattern |
| survivorship bias | focus on the examples that remain after some process while accidentally overlooking the examples that no longer remain because these examples are no longer a viable part of the record |
| replicating studies | confidence in study results increases greatly when replication of the study produces same results; replication occurs most frequently in experimental research where same relationship may be examined while changing one or more aspect of original study |
| basic research | typically directed toward advancing scientific knowledge for its own sake |
| applied research | oriented to finding solutions to specific social problems |
| evaluation research | describes or identifies the impacts of social policies and programs |
| evaluation research key characteristics | client oriented, conducted within specific time frames, designed to provide information for policy decisions (and for other targeted reasons), frequently developed to address research questions and variables that are specified by client and not researcher |
| quantitative evaluation research | systematic track change over time, compare experimental and control groups, % and numerical scores, quick comparisons between categories |
| qualitative evaluation research | add depth, detail, and nuance; clarify meaning; reveal complex emotions or feelings |
| goals of evaluation research | official/public goals-stated in reports/public statements, justify existence of organization, usually vague/political, established @ national not local level operative/organization specific goals-goals that are what organization actually tries to achieve |
| major focuses of evaluation research | evaluability assessment; needs assessment/program planning; program monitoring/process assessment; impact assessment/analysis; resource efficiency |
| most common finding | program being evaluated has little or no effect |
| major problems with evaluation research | people are resistant to evaluations, the goal trap, submarining |
| the goal trap | situation where researchers or evaluators become overly focused on achievement of specific goals or outcomes often w/o considering broader context or unintended consequences; narrow focus; overlooking process and adaptation; pressure to show success; |
| how to overcome the goal trap | aim for balanced approach; organizations with clearly stated goals which their progress can be evaluated against; goals are measurable |
| submarining | subvert or weaken insidiously or secretly; deliberately destroy/damage or obstruct, especially for political advantage |
| project of modernity | all modern thought is directed towards creating utopia |
| pre-modern | everything is where it is because that's where it is supposed to be |
| modern | where things are is a starting point to navigate to a more positive world |
| post-modern | we live in a world of complicated and competing views of what a better world looks like, critiques modernity. Is a radical response to Hitler's radical implementation of modernity |
| mummification | when we become idolators of concepts |
| culture of "one" | you have one belief, I'll have mine |
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