Lecture 4 ARM

Question 1

Components of the research problem

Answer 1

1. Awell-formulated research question
2. The selection and description of a case, setting and participants etc
3. Contextualisation of the research question within existing literature on your specific topic

Question 2

Bingibapbididi

Answer 2

Research topics are like small doors (cases) into big rooms (concepts, theories, broader signifance)!

Question 3

From topic to RQ

Answer 3

1. What will be studied?
2. Why worth studying)
3. How will it be studied? methods

Question 4

Components of the research question

Answer 4

1. the puzzle you are investigating
2. your thesis or argument
3. boundaries of your project

Question 5

What can anthro not answer?

Answer 5

1. Quantitative measures
2. Metaphysical questions
3. Prediction questions
4. Behavioural science questions - separations to variables, causations
5. Development questions
6. Normative/evaluative questions (opinionated, moral judgement, looking for an answer)

Question 6

Criteria of a good research question?

Answer 6

• Specific
• Curious
• Clear and coherent
  -Puzzling
• Anthropological
• Ethical

Question 7

Case versus setting

Answer 7

Not the same!

Question 8

Setting

Answer 8

Settings are context in which many phenomena occur that might be studied from any number of angles - where you study your topic, often multiple. Many things can be studied and going on

NOT the same as “field” the exotified faraway place

“sort of location that would be most appropriate for investigation of the research problem” (H and A, p. 30)

Question 9

Case

Answer 9

-Edited chunk of material reality where certain features are marked out and privileged, and emphasised (not natural - fictionized)
- “Aset of phenomena viewed from one particular angle, this constituted by a set of research questions” (page 34)

Case depends on how you abstract, concretize, specify and generalize ideas

Question 10

Examples of cases

Answer 10

• Land conflicts
  -local elections
• Court case followed in media
• opening of a highway in turkey

Question 11

The role of concepts

Answer 11

Analytical matrix in H and A, chapter 2

Moving between Substantive/empirical and formal

Remake the table later!!

Question 12

Concepts

Answer 12

Ideas that capture a broader idea
- Abstract
-Building blocks of socail science thinking
- Love, gender, value, symbolic violence

Question 13

Theories

Answer 13

Social glue holding facts together
Explanation and prediction
Structuralism, functionalism, skibidism
Illuminate things in distinct ways
- Put on glasses with filters of distinct social realities

Question 14

Foreshadowed problems

Answer 14

In Hammersley and Atkinson, find it!
- emerging from the existing literature
- come to you as you encounter research object
- NOTpreconceived idea of scientific works, but main endowment of a scientific thinker - revealed to the observer by his theoretical thinker boyski?

Question 15

What are “not” good reasons to study something?

Answer 15

1. Filling topical gaps
2. No one else has studied it
3. I find it interesting
4. Not enough literature on this

Question 17

What makes a research topic interesting?

Answer 17

1. Provides part of a solution to an important problem
2. conceptual contribution
3. pushes the academic conversation