SOCIAL RESEARCH METHOD Q: Which research design suits your research topic and why? OUR RESEARCH QUESTION: Our research construct is glass ceiling prevailing and increasing in the organizations. Therefore, our research question is “how to break glass ceiling?” RESEARCH DESIGNS: There are five basic research designs according to which one can conduct his/her research. These research designs are: 1. Experimental design 2. Longitudinal design 3. Explanatory design 4. Cross sectional
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Research Critique, Part 2 To write a critical appraisal that demonstrates comprehension of the research study conducted, respond to each of the questions listed under the headings below. Do not answer the questions with a yes or no; rather, provide a rationale or include examples or content from the study to address the questions. CRITICAL APPRAISAL GUIDELINES: QUANTITATIVE STUDY Protection of Human Participants * Identify the benefits and risks of participation addressed by the authors
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Observation is a method of data collection that takes advantage of the human ability to empathise. Unlike other research methods participant observation allows the sociologist to look at people in their natural environment. Participant observation is often associated with qualitative research, although the use of observation is not confined to researchers advocating any particular methodological approach. Sociologists such as Ned Polsky and Nigel Fielding have used participant observation to research different
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In case 2, Air Miles carried out a marketing research for the campaign ‘Who Join Wins’. New customer is targeted as the campaign is to attract them to join and have the lucky draw. This research have 3 objectives: to evaluate the advertising, to ascertain the clarity of the key message and ease of understand on it, and to gauge whether the audience could felt a sense of ‘you’d be mad not to take apart’ or not. Air Miles has used 2 research methods to evaluate the effectiveness. First, eight focus
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Research studies are done with the intention of creating a positive impact in the welfare of a group of people or individuals within a given population. The quantitative research design is a formal, systematic and objective process of obtaining information about the world or a part that can be quantified. Health effects of environmental contaminants has evinced research work in air pollution exposure and lung function in children. Another study was conducted on the relationship between domestic exposure
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Communication Research in the Philippines: Issues and Methods by Elena Pernia is a useful and practical resource on research for a novice or an expert on the field. It can serve as a step by step guide to a neophyte who is still trying to learn the ropes, be it in communication or in research. It can be a reference to the skilled researcher when he needs to think outside the box or simply state a fact. Finally, it can be a good read to people who are just interested on communication as well as research. Although
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Gathering Research Data Police officers face dangerous situations daily. As an officer, one could face an active shooter, an emotionally disturbed person acting out, car accidents, and getting injured on the job. Extensive law enforcement training in many areas such as defensive tactics, range training, autism awareness, and public safety are examples of training to learn to deal with these situations. Despite these dangers and more, people still choose to be a police officer. Officers puts
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sociologists in their research Snowballing sampling is where you use one of your own contacts who themselves has a contact to gain access to a particular group and this type of sampling can interlink between several people until you gain access to your desired group. Random sampling is fairly simple; it’s where the sample is picked completely at random for example picking names out of a hat. Examine the advantages for sociologists in using unstructured interviews in their research Unstructured interviews
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This project is designed to give you the opportunity and experience of researching a career that you are interested in pursuing. Your research for this project will be from a number of sources: informational interviews, career books, the Internet or other written material. You should take advantage of the resources provided in the Career Center, Evans Library, and the Student Counseling Center. There is also some great information available in various departmental offices on campus. You will
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conducting research into the detection of lies (15) When conducting research into detecting lies, researchers could potentially face many problems. These could be ethical or practical. The study by Mann attempted to find out about the police’s ability to detect liars. They studied this as we cannot know for sure if the police are good at identifying liars as the public are not allowed to observe recordings of interviews as a suspect is always innocent until proven guilty. The aim of this research was
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