UNIT5 - RESEARCH METHODS FOR POLITICAL SCIENCE, SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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RESEARCH METHODS FOR POLITICAL SCIENCE
UNIT5 - RESEARCH METHODS FOR POLITICAL SCIENCE, SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What is content analysis used for? - Answer-Textual sources, also known as document analysis
Conceptual content analysis - Answer-One key theme, words/context, implicit/explicit
Relational content analy...
Relational content analysis - Answer-Between specific concepts, applies to BOTH
Key Questions in content analysis : - Answer-How will I get this doc?, which should i
select? , open or closed coding?
Advantages of content analysis - Answer-No contaminated data, less barriers, look at
historical docs
Disadvantages of content analysis - Answer-Not all in text, time consuming, researcher
bias possibility increases
What is open coding? - Answer-No preset codes prior to reading, go in and read then
select codes
What is closed coding? - Answer-Go in to reading with a list of codes based on theories
What are qualitative methods? - Answer-Deep observation and analysis, non numerical
data, ie interviews etc
Advantages of qualitative methods - Answer-Understand casual mechanisms, move
past correlation, depth> breadth
Disadvantages of qualitative methods - Answer-Resource intensive, give up breadth of
depth
How to pick case studies - Answer-Check relevance, represents larger group, practical
considerations
Independent variable of interest - Answer-The variable you want to look at
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