The 3 M's
Interactions at this level are personal and occur between individuals and their family, peers and
individuals in the community
What is 'micro level'?
Every person, society, culture and environment is located in a period of ______ and is changing
with ______. _______ can be examined as past, present and future
What is 'time'?
All the tools that we use to assist our interactions in society
What is 'technologies'?
Open-ended questioning of a person, usually one on one, where you have a specific intended purpose to speak to them.
What is an interview?
What is 'decide on the topic to be researched'?
Tthe knowledge gained from reflecting on individual experiences.
What is 'personal experience'?
Every society is located in a particular physical setting and interacts with its _____________.
What is 'environment'?
The process of integration and sharing of goods, capital, labour, services, knowledge, leisure, sport, ideas and culture between countries
What is 'globalisation'?
The use of, and evaluation of, personal experiences and values to demonstrate analysis and
interpretation of data in the context
of the research focus.
What is personal reflection?
The idea that people should possess a body of knowledge, understanding and skills that allows them to share, communicate effectively, and respect
themselves and others.
What is 'social and cultural literacy'?
Interactions are impersonal and relate to large institutions, the media, law and government and are evident at a national and international level.
What is 'macro level'?
The shared knowledge, attitudes and behaviours that give each society its coherence, identity and distinctive way of life
What is 'culture'?
The socially constructed differences between females and males
What is 'gender'?
May have closed and open ended questions, distributed via a form or paper to gather information on large scale that is usually impersonal.
What is a questionnaire?
The practice where participants must be fully informed about the procedures and any possible risks involved in the research, and must give their consent to participate.
What is ethical research?
Groups in the community, village, school, workplace, local interest club, branch, organisation and state
What is 'meso level'?
A unique individual who develops in a social and environmental setting in which he or she is influenced by, and interacts
What is 'persons'?
The right to make decisions and to determine, adjudicate or settle issues and disputes in society
What is 'authority'?
Used to analyse and interpret themes, words
and images from documents, film, art, music
and other cultural artefacts and media.
What is content analysis?
Data that can be measured, counted or quantified,
resulting in a statistical report
What is 'quantitative research' or 'quantitative methods'?
General knowledge and the knowledge available to everyone
What is 'public knowledge'?
Made up of people, groups, networks, institutions, organisations and systems
What is 'society'?
The sense of self and can be viewed from a personal, social and cultural level
What is 'identity'?
The researcher is immersed in the action being
observed and his or her role as researcher
is not obvious
What is participant observation?
This is the second step of the process of research.
What is 'develop a focus question or hypothesis'?