Workshop- social science

M1- workshop

The following questions/issues will lead the discussion of this topic; you can add your own questions.
Let us try to brainstorm some ideas for research problems. I propose some major areas and you can propose others:
effects of mass communication media,
issues associated with teenagers or adolescence,
quality of social services in the community,
behavior of people in organizations,
psychological experiments,
population studies, and
criminal behavior.
Formulate questions within these or other areas that can be studied through qualitative or quantitative approaches. Borrow ideas from your colleagues and present alternate questions. Do Internet searches about these broad areas in order to get in virtual contact with your subject of study.
What constitutes a good research hypothesis? Give examples of good and bad hypotheses. Do hypotheses have something to do with the strategy of research that you choose? Explain the relationship between your hypothesis and your research strategy if there is one. Formulate hypotheses respect to the problems identified in the previous question.
Qualitative research is usually not aimed to test hypothesis, but it is a powerful tool for generating hypotheses. In which ways could you use your qualitative, experiential knowledge about the issues mentioned above in order to generate hypotheses? Reflect about a case that you know in any of those areas and try to formulate a valid hypothesis.