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Departement Sosiologie en Sosiale Antropologie

Department of Sociology and Social AnthropologyS364 - Sosiale Navorsing (2013)

S364 - Social Research (2013)

Dr Lloyd Hill

[email protected]

Lecture 4 Lesing 4Reading and

questioning

Lees en bevraag-

tekening

Wednesday, 31 July Woensdag, 31 Julie
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]


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Overview / Oorsig

Why do we read?

academic voice?

What is a research

proposal? What is a literature

review?

literature review vsconceptual framework

Getting started

research questions

Waarom lees ons?

akademiese stem?

Wat is 'n navorsings-

voorstel? Wat is 'n literatuur-

oorsig?

literatuuroorsig vskonseptuele

raamwerk

Om te begin...

navorsingsvrae


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Read

(lees)

Lecture

(voorlesing)


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Hoekom lees ons?

Why do we read?

Conceptualizing my

issue / topic

Definitive (deductive) vs

sensitizing concepts(Blumer)

Situating myself in my

academic field

Identifying my/ourdiscourse communities

Questions

Preparing to exercise

our academic voice

Konseptualisering van

mysaak / onderwerp

Definitiewe en

sensitiserende konsepte

Plasing van myself in

my akademiese veld

Identifisering van my/ons

diskoers gemeenskappe

Vrae...

Voorbereiding om ons

akademiese stem uit te

oefen


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Definitive vs sensitizing

concepts

"Blumer argued stridently against the use of

definitive concepts in social research. The

idea of definitive concepts is typified by theway in which, in quantitative research, a

concept, once developed, becomes fixed

through the elaboration of indicators..."

(See Bryman, 2012: 388)


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Deductive logic

Theoretical level (reading)

Operational orobservational level

Prevailingtheories orthesesFormal theoretical

language, using definitive

concepts (e.g. hypothesis)

Operational language Measurement

Verified(Carnap) /Not (yet)falsified(Popper)

Falsified


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Conceptualizing my issue

Start of research End of research

Concept

Research

proposal

Research

methods

chapter /

report

Definitive concepts (the

definition of dictionaries)

Sensitizing concepts

Denotation

(denotasie)

Connotation

(konnotasie)


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Wat is akademiese stem?

Stem het n naturalitiese verbintenis met

spreek

Maarakademiese stem is meer as die

vermo om te praat

aangeleerde vaardigheid om te praat en te

skryf

Maak aanspraak op gehoor, dws veronderstel

sosiale vermo / kapasiteit om gehoor te word

Geskrewe stem:

passiewe akademiese woordeskat

vereis 'n begrip van "my veld"


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What is academic voice?

Voice has a naturalistic association withspeech

But academic voice is not natural

Learned ability to speak and writeAssumes an audience: the social capacity to

speak and be heard (to say)

Written voice

Passive active academic vocabulary

requires a sense ofmy field

Research proposal


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What is a research proposal?

A document that forms a coherent whole (samehangende

geheel)

that constitutes an argument

manifests youracademic voice

that codifies the preliminary (voorlopige

kodifisering), but most important version of your

research design that targets an audience (gehoor)

Your tutors / lecturers (3rd Year)

your supervisor (Honours)

others?


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From the project document


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What is a literature review?

Systematic review: Formal and replicable process

Meta-analysis (quantitative)

Meta-ethnography Narrative review: critical interpretation

Not replicable, but assumes wide reading /

coverage of a sub-field or discoursecommunity

See Bryman (chapter 5)

Conceptual Framework


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Wat is n literatuuroorsig?

Sistematiese oorsig : Formele en herhaalbare proses

Meta-analise (kwantitatief)

Meta-etnografie Narratiewe oorsig: kritiese interpretasie)

Nie herhaalbaar nie, maar veronderstel wye

lees / dekking van n leesarea of diskoers-gemeenskap

Sien Bryman (hoofstuk 5)

Konseptuele raamwerk


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Maxwell (2005) Qualitative Research Design, p.123


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Literature review vs

conceptual framework

You cannot write

a literature

review in 500

words!


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Principles of selection

Is reviewing analogous to sampling?

Yes: systematic review

What are the selection principles at work

in drafting a literature review?

Systematic review: representative

Narrative review: comprehensive, but less

representative

Conceptual framework: highly selective,

vehicle for initial conceptualization


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Problem statement and

research questions

See Hernon & Schwartz

(2007), short article on

Webstudies

Research questions:

conceptual or empirical?


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Getting started: questioning

What ideas do I already have about thebroad theme? (Studying and interacting ata South African university)

Read more

Read Wikipedia?

Are there any controversies (twispunte)?

Start formulating conceptual questions

What does X mean?

How does [this writer] understand X?

Develop a sense of the field (of writers)

who have written about X


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Developing good reading habits

Activevs

passive

reading


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Active reading / Aktiewe lees

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