...MKU-VIRTUAL CAMPUS RESEARCH METHODS CATS I &II QUESTION ONE Using the knowledge acquired on literature review, answer the following questions; Compile a literature review on “why we should carry out research in our society” INTRODUCTION. In the broadest definition of words research includes gathering of data, information and facts for the advancement of knowledge. In meaning research is an organized and systematic way of finding answers to questions. It is systematic because there is a definite set of procedures and steps which you will follow. (There are certain things in the research process which are always done in order to get the most accurate results.) Organized in that there is a structure or method in going about research.( It is a planned procedure, not a spontaneous one. It is focused and limited to a specific scope.) Finding answers is the end of all research. (Whether it is the answer to a hypothesis or even a simple question, research is successful when we find answers. Sometimes the answer is no, but it is still an answer.) Questions are also central to research.( Whether it is the answer to a hypothesis or even a simple question, research is successful when we find answers. Sometimes the answer is no, but it is still an answer.) Research is arguably an important aspect of life especially in our society. The main importance of research is to produce knowledge that can be applied outside a research setting. Research also forms the foundation of program...
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...journal article 3. Magazine * Violence- “Cartoon violence makes children more aggressive” * By: Laura Clark * Summary of magazine article 4. Bibliography The Washington Times April 27, 2009 Monday “Filter can shield kids from smut” BYLINE: By Rebecca Hagelin, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES SECTION: CULTURE; HOW TO SAVE YOUR FAMILY; A14 LENGTH: 659 wordsCulture challenge of the week: Internet pornographyAmerica is raising a generation of children on porn - and your child just might be one of them. According to the London School of Economics, nine out of 10 teens who go online will view pornography. The Kaiser Family Foundation reports that 70 percent of those who viewed porn stumbled across it - many while innocently doing their homework - and had not been looking for it.The purveyors of hard-core porn are so fixated on creating addicts out of our sons and daughters that they have made it virtually impossible for children to escape their clutches. Even one mistyped letter can lead your child into a sordid world where women are objectified, where there are no lines between violence and sex, and where the most intimate of human acts - created by God to unite husbands and wives - has been twisted into something abusive and ugly.The negative effects of porn usage on children are clear. A Heritage Foundation study reports that the harms include: overestimating the prevalence of practices such as group sex, bestiality and sado-masochism; perceiving...
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...Research Paper Social Research Methods Fulkerson Research Question: What are the main factors that lead teenagers to join gangs? Hypothesis: The amount of violence, crime, and fear gangs create in society has only been increasing throughout the years. One of the major problems with these gangs in society is that teenagers are the main members of them. The topic I am going to do my research experiment on, and try to find more valid research on is the reasons why teenagers join gangs. When conducting my research I would want to find out the main reasons what is driving teenagers to participate and turn to gangs. There can be so many factors that pushes a teenager to rebel and go as far as relying on gangs to be there for them. This would be great research to expand on, because learning what motivates these teenagers to join gangs would increase peoples knowledge about it. Increasing peoples knowledge about it I think would decrease the number of teens joining them. Friends, family members, school teachers and many more would be able to point out the early signs, or factors in their life that might be affecting them to go down the wrong path. With more knowledge about the teenage gang situation people might be able to steer kids into getting some help, such as talking to a counselor about their struggles, or directing them into better extracurricular activities such as sports or clubs. Method of Investigation: Based on previous literature I have read up on and studied...
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...An experiment to investigate wither a person will conform to a presence of a male or a female , when a participant is put in a situation where male and a female drop books in front of them Aim Our aim is how gender effects people thoughts when people are in need. In this case dropping books in front of an individual, Hypothesis 1. Depending upon how the actors who are dropping the books present themselves towards the participant who is walking by, will decide whether the participants will decide to help in the situation. 2. In the experiment the individual who is faced in a situation where the actors drop the books in front of them, the individual will decide to help the girl actor, who is dropping the books because it is the right thing to do. 3. Throughout the three variations of the study more individuals will help the female actors who are dropping the books in the 3 variations. 4. More participants will help the male actor who is dropping the books; because the participant may personally know the male actor. The Method The experiment we conducted is a field experiment; it will take place in different areas of the school, where it is most populated by students in order for the experiment to work. In the experiment I have three variations to see if people would help, the experiment will consist of more participants helping the female participants and lastly if more participants help the male actor. Which means the independent variable of the experiment...
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...Senior Research Project: Is the right to bear arms ethical? Lucas Van Duyn Senior Seminar: Business Ethics Dr. Jewe July 31, 2012 Introduction to the Project: In the United States, research into firearms and violent crime is fraught with difficulties, associated with limited data on gun ownership and use, firearms markets, and aggregation of crime data. Research studies into gun violence have primarily taken one of two approaches: case-control studies and social ecology. Gun ownership is usually determined through surveys, proxy variables, and sometimes with production and import figures. In statistical analysis of homicides and other types of crime, which are rare events, these data tend to have poison distributions, which also presents methodological challenges to researchers. (Just Facts, 2010) Americans own an estimated 270 million firearms, approximately 90 guns for every 100 people. In 2009, guns took the lives of 31,347 Americans in homicides, suicides and unintentional shootings. This is the equivalent of more than 85 deaths each day and more than three deaths each hour. 66,769 Americans were treated in hospital emergency departments for non-fatal gunshot wounds in 2009. Firearms were the third-leading cause of injury-related deaths nationwide in 2009, following poisoning and motor vehicle accidents. Between 1955 and 1975, the Vietnam War killed over 58,000 American soldiers – less than the number of civilians killed with guns in the U.S. in an average...
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.................................................................................. 3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT .............................................................................................................. 4 IMPORTANCE OF ACCOUNTING FOR SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES ......... 5 INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................... 6 THEORETICAL UNDERPINNING .............................................................................................. 8 LITERATURE REVIEW ............................................................................................................. 12 RESEARCH OBJECTIVES ......................................................................................................... 15 RESEARCH METHODS...
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...social and showing how social research is much stronger and what we can learn from it. The ways in which society determines gender will be brought to light and then the main points which biologist thinkers tend to ignore will be explained. it will then be shown why and how this can effect not just women but men as well. By doing this the reader will understand relevant research, identify the key points of how gender is socially constructed and then finally be able to realise how this is effecting individuals lives and how it would be beneficial to some...
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... Rainer de Sousa Romain Ades Course: Marketing Principles Professor: Girish Prayag Supervisor: Jeanette McDonald Skema Bachelor Spring 2011 Executive Summary Undergraduate students at the Skema Business School at Sophia-Antipolis, France; we have been conducting an on-campus marketing feasibility study to evaluate what would be the chances of successfully implementing a new service to the entire school community, focusing especially on the French student population. Our service concept involves educating our target market about recycling (focusing on the recycling of electronics), motivating our target market to recycle electronic devices, collecting the devices and handling them to recycling facilities. We carried out an initial exploratory research in the form of a focus group and based on it, on our insights and perceptions about the relation between the issue of recycling and our school, and also based on secondary research, we developed a descriptive research in the form of a questionnaire in French composed by closed-ended questions to be answered by 100 francophone Skema students chosen randomly across various classrooms. We obtained a 100% response rate. The analysis of the study results has indicated that despite the fact that practically everyone considers recycling important, almost a third of the respondents don’t take into consideration how green a school is before applying to it. Most people recycle...
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...the effect of drugs on an individual and the society as a whole. The effects brought about by the abuse of drugs are many and well known to us. Some of these effects include, destruction of the human character, a person’s dignity and autonomy is destroyed, the sense of responsibility is swept away, drugs subvert productivity and there is loss of memory affecting to the greatest extent students. Legalization generally means removing a legal prohibition against something that is currently not legal. (Dictionary.com) Then by legalizing drugs; we will be making the sale and use of drugs which is currently illegal to be legal. The sale of drugs will be done freely on every corner of our streets just like candy without anyone bothering the other. Legislation advocates deny that the amount of drug use would be affected, I conquer with the opinion, making drugs legal will increase their availability and use. For instances, “when powder cocaine was hard and expensive to get, it was found in the circles of the rich, famous and privileged”. (William J Bennett) There is an argument that legislation of drugs will reduce the number of street crimes in our streets. Research has proven otherwise. Most drug criminals on our streets were into crime well before they got involved with drugs. Legalizing drugs won’t stop these criminal from because they will continue their criminal activities to cater for their bills and needs. By keeping drugs illegal we maintain the criminal sanctions that persuade...
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...Content 1. Introduction--------------------------------------------------------------------------3 2. Literature Review------------------------------------------------------------------4 3. Methodology used in research----------------------------------------------------7 4. Expected results--------------------------------------------------------------------8 5. Conclusion---------------------------------------------------------------------------9 6. Reference----------------------------------------------------------------------------10 Introduction United Kingdom is a region with a large population. Also with the high diversity of the population, people tend to have different culture backgrounds. Walking along the streets in NTIC, you might find yourself in another Europe city as there is a large amount of African, Chinese, Indian and some people from other culture backgrounds. So this issue leads to the research which the author wants to dig in, will they really get along well with each other with different culture backgrounds or are they really that different? Also the author has set three objectives as followed which this research needs to complete. Objectives: 1. Find out does the cultural differences exist or not. 2. Analyse the main reason that is causing the cultural differences. 3. Find a way to improve the misunderstanding of cultural differences if it does exist. Literature Review The so-called “culture”...
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...Married Couple With Two Different Cultures ENG-105 Research paper Summer 2014 Prepared by Sumaiya Rahman ID:-1220448030 Section:- 21 Date:- 21/08/2014 Prepared for: Shireen Haque (SnH) Acknowledgements This research paper is has been prepared as a requirement for completing my course on Eng-105 (Advance Composition). Several people have played a large role behind the development of this paper, whether by active participation or through their advice and suggestions, so I will start this paper by acknowledging the people who have provided me with their aid, which was necessary for completing this research paper. First of all I would like to thank my course instructor Mrs. Shireen Haque. She selflessly devoted her time in preparing me for conducting my research and in developing my writing skills. Her invaluable support towards my topic motivated me to conduct my research confidently. Whenever I faced any problems, she often took time off her free period to help me, and I am really grateful to her because of this. I would also like to thank my friends, especially Afsana Shompa, Risalat Rahman, Taskin Ahmed, Shahriar Amin and Richard Chakma, for helping me out in conducting the survey and also for their honest opinions regarding my topic and the questionnaire, and there is no way that I can fully repay the sincerity that they have shown in pointing out my mistakes and helping me to correct those. I would also like...
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...and Conclusion 8 References: 11 Introduction We are born as child and then gradually transformed to adults. This transformation, from Childhood to Adulthood is often dependent upon lot of factors, both internal and external. This transformation depends a lot upon the inputs given by parents and family members. Through out the research we have tried to figure out the role played by parents and parenting in this transformation. The purpose of the project is to figure out that what are the behavioral aspects of parents that have an impact on the upbringing of child and how parents can effect the transformation of children from childhood to adulthood. The literature tells us that parents who understand their children and who has got control over children tend to shape the future of their kids in a positive way, whereas parents who treat their children as liability and are engage in scolding them losses control over their children. Some of the things worth mentioning for research are: - * There are several factors that parents should consider about the upbringings of their children. * First they should realize that there is always a generation gap between their thinking and their children thinking. * They should not be too imposing and at the same time they should be able to communicate their thinking to their kids. * Parents should also be able to understand the perspective of their kids, children should be set free in the way that they can make their own...
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...prevent their previous behaviors to reappear. In Williams’s case, there was much more solid evidence that his mind and soul had grown from his time in jail, he was nominated for five Nobel Peace Prizes in Literature and Peace. His appeal to have his death sentence overturned was inevitably denied, and he was executed, only to leave behind a legacy of children’s books about the dangers of gangs and the negative affects of weapons on communities. Reformation is, in my opinion, the most powerful part of the human spirit. It comes with age and experience, and when crimes are committed through poor decision making, and /or influence on or from a group of others (which could be applied to Williams’ gang crimes), reformation and religious redemption should be taken into consideration if a review is requested. I am not a religious person by any means, but I am very spiritual and do believe whole-heartedly in the idea of Karma, and while I might not have been involved in crimes that would result in state mandated death, or any kind of judicial ruling for that matter, I did engage in behavior in my youth that I...
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...data on the behaviors of students from UPR Ponce consumers, if the people are affected or influenced by advertisement strategies, to perceive the different market offerings and are led to buy. Purpose of the Study The objective of this study is to know how commercials affect in the UPR Ponce people decision on buying a product. Also, we want to identify which strategies are most beneficial when making an ad for the purpose of motivating the target market to buy the products. Scope of Analysis Four factors will be analyzed: 1. Commercial advertising that promote the purchase of the product by using subliminal messages. 2. What impact has advertising in UPR Ponce consumers? 3. Why do you purchase a product? 4. Why use this type of product? Methodology In the methodology, we used primary data and secondary data to carry out the research. We prepared a survey to investigate, how important are sale prices for people when they are shopping. After having completed the distribution of surveys we realized that the questionnaires did not have any sense, we had to any conclusion. Realizing that the instrument used was not served, we began to analyze how to do a case study. Were interviewed a...
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...increasing because of the developed medical research, medicines, and medical equipment. However, developed biomedical methods such as cloning are controversial and in fact 93% of all Americans oppose cloning (Pynes). Cloning is a technique used by researchers and animal breeders to split a single embryo into two or more embryos that will have the exact same genetic information. Because of the controversies against this practice, the United States would not open the door to human cloning and this has led to a debate between the government, and scientists and bioethicists. Cloning is a very controversial topic since it relates to moral values of human beings. Human cloning has become a hot topic for debate as we progress one step closer to successfully cloning and developing a human being. Legislators and the general public have become more concerned about the medical, ethical, social and moral implications of this procedure. The risks involved in human cloning outweigh the benefits, for that reason, human cloning should not be legalized in the United States. Human cloning will cause serious medical issues. Technically, the human gene grows older with age. According to Gary Wickman, an author at Health Guidance.org, it is feared that the cloned individual will retain the age of the donor’s genes. Imagine what will happen if a 40 year old gene is manifested into newborn baby. There is a possibility that the cloned individual might carry certain abnormalities, and the clones may...
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