Palmer Method

The method of fieldwork analyzes people in an area to find cultural patterns and understand their way of life. Fieldwork will help get a better understanding of the topic of sex on TV and its relation to children by studying the reaction of children to the commercials and sex scenes and see if it influences them in the outside world. It is very important to get all the information needed to conduct sociological research and get realistic findings. Fieldwork is a valuable method and will…

Knowledge is a basic virtue that many people around the world inspire to gain or improve. Knowledge is defined as the "facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject" ("Knowledge." Merriam-Webster. Merriam-Webster. Web. 28 Feb. 2015.) or as the "awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation." ("Knowledge." Merriam-Webster. Merriam-Webster. Web. 28 Feb. 2015.). Through these…

In the section of the Phaedo we read, Socrates argues that one has knowledge of the form absolute equality prior to birth, and that learning is a “recovering of knowledge which is natural to us” (40). Socrates’ argument for theory of recollection and that one cannot acquire knowledge of absolute equality through empirical means does succeed despite some minor issues with it. Socrates first proves that there is no example of absolute equality in one’s own experience. To do this Socrates and his…

Scientific research was originally developed to determine a solution to a particular problem using various methods of research design. Two common, broad approaches of research design are qualitative and quantitative research. This essay will establish the key differences between qualitative research; the approach to empirical research that relies primarily on the collection of non-numerical data (Christensen, Johnson, Turner, 2014. 362), and quantitative research; the collection of various types…

Benish-Weisman, M. (2015). The interplay between values and aggression in adolescence: a longitudinal study. Developmental Psychology, doi:10.1037/dev0000015 This was a longitudinal study done on five Israel schools to test the previous theories that certain values can be correlated with aggression. Benish wanted to examine the relationship between values and aggression on a large sample of Israeli adolescents for a period of a year. He used the four higher values…

Thus, creating generalisation in qualitative research lays in the issues of validity and reliability of the level of notions, explanation and groups of the parent population (Lewis and Ritchie, 2003: 269). Among the three discussed qualitative methods (individual interview, focus group participant observation), it can be claimed that participant observation deemed as having the weakest position in generalising research findings. As LeCompte and Goetz (1982) noted, research involves participant…

2.2 Type of Data Collected and Sample Size At a basic level the differences between qualitative and quantitative methods (Eisner, 1998; Ryan & Golden, 2006) are related to the fact that a survey is mostly used to collect numerical data and / or information, statistical methods and graphs are used to analyse such data and / or information in quantitative research (Saunders et al., 2009; Van Maanen, 1983) compared to interviews in qualitative research, collecting words, explanations, opinions,…

According to Emile Durkheim there are four different types of suicide. They are egoistic suicide, altruistic suicide, anomic suicide, and fatalistic suicide. Although I personally have never thought about committing suicide, my life has changed because of two girls who decided to take their own lives. I grew up in a small town called Philomath, Oregon so everybody knew everybody. In October of 2013 a freshman named Lilly Stagner committed suicide. We weren’t even acquainted with one another, but…

The findings of this study on neurocognitive performance of high school athletes who incur multiple concussions suggest athletes with a history of 3 or more concussions are still impaired on cognitive tasks and concussion symptoms [6].The authors used a cohort study design, the IVs were concussion groups (0,1,2,>3), and time ( baseline, 3 days, 8 days), the DVs were neurocognitive test scores measured by Immediate Post Concussion Assessment, cognitive testing (ImPact), neurocognitive test…

According to Polit and Beck (2008), nursing research is a process purposely to improved knowledge regarding important issues to nursing profession which involves nursing education, practice, administration and informatics. Nursing research also encompasses a wide scope of scientific inquiry, including clinical research, health systems and outcomes research, and nursing education research (Miller, Ward and Young, 2010). Nieswiadomy (2012) also defined nursing research as the systematic, objective…