Social and behavioral science research starts at many different places. You have all gone through that in your team meetings. Salut to you all for presenting a finished project at this class session.
I have been going through data collected from the SO348 teams since 2002. The raw data is attached for you to review. Your teams are part of the history of this course at Mercy. Every social and behavioral science major in an accreditated US college also takes this class in whatever form. You are part of and maybe even making history!
You are participant observers in today’s team presentations. There are three questions that I would like you to write about.
1/ From today’s presentations and the attached listing of teams, please give me some categories. Think qualitative. The projects are rich in descriptions but how can one organize them into themes. Think “The Caregiver’s Tale” and how Dr. Burack-Weiss constructed categories of caregiving from memoirs. What themes, i.e, the nominal categories of measurement, do you identify,
Bullying meta analysis questionnaires youth at risk action research
Poverty poor parenting behavior issues substance abuse budget
The categories I can identify are social and emotional issues and methods of research
2/ What independent variables seem relevant to understand the whole corpus of research teams in this course? I have several variables listed, particularly in the sample columns (geo, age, N). What would you add?
Socioeconomic status
3/ Another variable is the method. I am going through the projects and listing methods. I note that some teams are off in their method. Research may be multi-method but there is usually a predominant method. In your assessment was the choice of team project methods the best choice? Do some critical thinking.
Observation and Interview
Thanks much!
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