Essays on Babbie

Sociology is the study of society, of the relationships between individuals, of the rules governing social lives, but also of how to break the rules (Babbie, 1994). The analyzed reading suggests that is no single perspective that is true or representative regarding all these aspects, and paradigms such as interactionism, functionalism or conflict are only several approaches through which they can be analyzed (Barbie, 1994). The article “An idea Whose Time Has Come” questions the validity of many of the mass media information fed to individuals on a daily basis and challenges the authority of rules, demonstrating that nowadays, ...

Discuss the reasons why a social scientist would do an exploratory study, and descriptive study. Select a research topic and show how it would be addressed through the 2 research designs. Bryman, (2015) enlightens that research designs helps in formulating adequate research methods to help a researcher to achieve the objectives of his or her research project. To this end, a social scientist is likely to select the research design to utilize in a certain project based on the unique needs of the research project in consideration. Babbie (2015) argues that exploration design is best when a research intends ...

Review the discussion of the Milgram experiment on Obedience. How would you design a study to accomplish the same purpose while avoiding the ethical criticisms leveled at Milgram? Would your design be equally valid? Would it have the same effect? The Milgram experiment aimed at establishing the extent to which people were willing to harm others while following orders. However, the experiment has been criticized for utilizing research methods that are not right as well as being unethical. It is possible to design a study has the potential of achieving the same goals while at the same time adhering ...

The modern day business environment has numerous dynamics that present organizations with both opportunities and challenges. To this end, Babbie (2013) provides that managers are always striving to understand the business environment to track any changes and trends to develop and implement the appropriate responses where necessary. In this regard, social research has become an essential business practice as it helps organizations to keep track of the market environment. Shipman (2014) advises that it is essential for business managers to utilize the appropriate social research methods to ensure that they get an accurate view of changes and trends in ...

Introduction

A research project needs to address all the key areas so that it can comprehensively cover all the key points. It allows the researcher to highlight all paramount points and later discuss them as they venture in answering the question of the research. Babbie (2016) argues that there are many factors that a researcher should consider as they write down their research project, however, some of the factors are more important than the others and should include in the discussion. For the purpose of this study, the researcher identifies the problem of traffic and congestion of vehicles as the ...

Organizational stress is a relatively recent notion that has appeared with the fast growing of enterprises and increasing demands to its workers. The researches taken in the 1990s showed a rapid growth of people who complain about being unwell at work. It is usually caused by those stressors that emerged due to the structural changes in organization, job redesign, and shifts in social system of the organization (Elkin, Rosch, 1990, pp. 739-754). All these, and many other, factors influence negatively the worker’s usual psychological state, as they have to adapt to the new conditions, demands and reconstruct their ...

Abstract

The Vandiver et al. (2011) study uses an interview-based approach to determine the effects that female sex offenders feel as a result of their placement on the sex offender registry. The article looks at women from Texas and Illinois, and accumulates information about judicial processing experiences and the effects of their placement on the registry. The Vandiver et al. (2011) study focuses specifically on the experiences of female sex offenders, which is quite different from many studies on the impacts of being placed on the registry, as most individuals who are placed on the registry are male. The purpose ...

Executive Summary

The report is prepared to identify the reason Touch Screen Marketing and Research (TSMR) is not able to gather proper responses from the surveys they conduct. The main scope of the company is to conduct market research for its clients are providing them with the details about the market. The company is generating weak responses from the respondents who are likely to affect the business of the company. The report will help TSMR to identify the reasons behind such responses and the steps that the company can take to improve the responses from the market. To analyze the current ...

Research Approach

There are three different research approaches for this research paper. They are descriptive, explanatory, and application research. The first theme titled ‘PTSD in correctional facilities’ will use the descriptive research approach. This section will determine the scope of PTSD among correctional officers. The second theme titled ‘Dealing with PTSD among correctional officers’ will use the explanatory research approach. This theme will explore the prevalence of PTSD and look for ways to eradicate the problem. The third theme titled ‘Analysis of Stress Levels in correctional facilities’ will use actual data from the correctional staff and use it to determine whether ...

Abstract

Criminal Justice research is essential to upgrade law enforcement efficiency in combatting criminal activity. Hence, it is important for the research to come up with specific purpose in relation to the problem. Research purposes outline the problem and plot the procedure for the researcher to achieve the desired outcome. The four principle research purposes each have potential influence outcomes of subsequent researches. It is imperative to choose the proper approach and to ensure that the outcome contains the solution on how to deal with each type of criminal activity. It is remarkable that despite their dynamics, the research purposes ...

Millennials include all those people that were born between 1982 and 2000. It is also known as the digital generation and the first internet generation. For last many years, the debate has been continued about the characteristics, attitude, behaviour and nature of new generation or Millennials (Dauria, 2015). In the same field, the debate has emerged among the researchers that New Generation or Millennials are not very much interested in news as compared to those who born and grew in the pre-internet or digital age. The concerns began when the data finding suggested that the underlying generation is not ...

Quasi-experiments are research designs that attempt to mimic an experimental design. However, the researcher cannot control the assignment of study participants to groups: a key feature for true experiments (Wadsworth, n.d.). This paper explores quasi-experiments as a research design.

Part 1

Advantages of Quasi-experiments Firstly, quasi-experiments, as the name suggests, are not true experiments. They contain elements of both a true experimental and correlational research (Jackson, 2012). Therefore, they allow the researcher to obtain stronger conclusion compared to when they conduct a pure correlational research. Secondly, quasi-experiments are useful in circumstances when conducting a true experiment is either infeasible or very ...