scholarly journals Analyzing 21st Century Video Data on Situational Dynamics—Issues and Challenges in Video Data Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Nassauer ◽  
Nicolas M. Legewie
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Video Data ◽  
Turn Of The Millennium ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Video Recordings

Since the turn of the millennium researchers have access to an ever-increasing pool of novel types of video recordings. People use camcorders, mobile phone cameras, and even drones to film and photograph social life, and many public spaces are under video surveillance. More and more sociologists, psychologists, education researchers, and criminologists rely on such visuals to observe and analyze social life as it happens. Based on qualitative or quantitative techniques, scholars trace situations or events step-by-step to explain a social process or outcome. Recently, a methodological framework has been formulated under the label Video Data Analysis (VDA) to provide a reference point for scholars across disciplines. Our paper aims to further contribute to this effort by detailing important issues and potential challenges along the VDA research process. The paper briefly introduces VDA and the value of 21st century visuals for understanding social phenomena. It then reflects on important issues and potential challenges in five steps of conducting VDA, and formulate guidelines on how to conduct a VDA: From setting up the research, to choosing data sources, assessing their validity, to analyzing the data and presenting the findings. These reflections aim to further methodological foundations for studying situational dynamics with 21st century video data.

scholarly journals Struktur dan Sistem Sosial pada Aras Wacana dan Praksis

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Thohir Yuli Kusmanto ◽  
Misbah Zulfa Elizabeth
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Social System ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Fundamental Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Practical Reality

<p><em>The social phenomenon that became the focus of sociology has diversity in the aspects of social life of society both as a real and practical reality as well as abstract and utopian reality. The reality is static and moves dynamically inherent in social processes in the daily life of social setting. The social process shapes reality as part of the past takes place today and becomes a hope for the future. Among the social phenomena that become part of the fundamental study of sociology are structure and social system. Social structure is a process of social interaction that lasts a long time, regularly and form a pattern. The social system is a functional social interaction of a set of elements in a group or society to defend the boundaries or unity of its parts. Both in this context are interesting to explain the process of its formation, relationships, functions, traits and changes in discourse and praxis. Applying literature study this article will explore the processes of formation, relationships, functions, traits, and changes of social structure and social system in discourse and praxis. The effort is important to strengthen the sociology repertoire on the macro and abstract level.</em></p>

scholarly journals Representative Research: A Qualitatively Driven Approach

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Combs
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Quantitative Methodology ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Personal Involvement ◽  
The Social

Research methodologies represent complex sociohistorical evolutions within the social sciences ranging from reductionist to reflexive sensibilities (Tuchman, 1994). These inquiries each emphasize dissimilar variations of data analysis as found in their subsequent conclusions obtained from and during the research process. Unlike quantitative methodology with its explicit formulaic constructions, qualitative research includes a veritable cornucopia of methodologies, paradigms and methods. This paper briefly reviews those experiences encountered and processes which unfolded during a pilot project for a research class. Although Miller and Crabtree (1992) proposed a research roadmap with associated typologies within qualitative research, this paper focuses on the process of learning to "drive" with this roadmap by synthesizing theory to the field and back to theory. Agar's (1986) observation of research, specifically ethnography, as requiring "intense personal involvement. . .and an ability to learn from a long series of mistakes" (p. 12) best characterizes the research process written about here.

scholarly journals Do It for the Culture: The Case for Memes in Qualitative Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 160940692110258
Author(s):  
Constance Iloh
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Cultural Relevance ◽  
Prominent Feature ◽  
Rapport Building ◽  
Everyday Communication ◽  
Remote Data

Memes are a prominent feature of global life in the 21st century. The author asserts that memes are significant to current and future qualitative research. In particular, the text establishes memes as: (a) part of everyday communication, expression, and explanation, thus useful in qualitative research; (b) valuable cultural units and symbols; (c) forms of rapport building and cultivating relational research; (d) approaches that bolster and sustain remote data collection; (e) methods that infuse agency, humor, and creativity into the research process. The author then showcases distinctive ways memes can be effectively incorporated in qualitative research pursuits and publications. The article concludes with the necessity of data collection and representation approaches that advance the meaningfulness and cultural-relevance of qualitative inquiry.

Quantitative Coding of Negotiation Behavior

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 441-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie Weingart ◽  
Philip Smith ◽  
Mara Olekalns
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Fundamental Step ◽  
Coding Scheme ◽  
Negotiation Behavior ◽  
Negotiation Processes ◽  
Shed Light

AbstractThe examination of negotiation processes is seen by many researchers as an insurmountable task largely because the required methods are unfamiliar and labor-intensive. In this article, we shed light on a fundamental step in studying negotiation processes, the quantitative coding of data. Relying on videotapes as the primary source of data, we review the steps required to extract usable quantitative data and the lessons we've learned in doing so in our own research. We review our experience working with one large negotiation dataset, Towers Market II, to illustrate two steps within the larger research process: developing a coding scheme and coding the data. We then go on to discuss some of the issues that need to be resolved before data analysis begins.

“Germany in ruins”. Framing new political movements in Germany in the Polish opinion-forming press

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-119
Author(s):  
Karol Franczak
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
New Right ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
Contemporary Media

Abstract One of the main goals of contemporary media, along with the experts and professionals, who speak in them, has been to explain complex issues and provide the audience with clear descriptions of social reality. This is mostly achieved by the production of ideologically useful interpretative schemes that facilitate understanding of the issues present on the media agenda. An important strategy of shaping the public opinion in the way in which public affairs and the activity of social life participants is framed. Analyses of such practices have been conducted for over thirty years within various research approaches collectively referred to as framing analysis. This research provides several arguments helping one to develop a more critical perspective on the representations of social phenomena dominant in the media and discourses of symbolic elites (e.g. opinion writers, academics, experts, journalists, politicians), along with the analyses of the origin of such phenomena, moral judgements and preferred "corrective policies". One of the phenomena defined by the media in Europe as the most important one for the past several years, is the so-called "New Right". The aim of the paper is to analyse the interpretative schemes used by the journalists of four Polish opinion-forming weeklies and to describe the activity of its German manifestation – the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident (Pegida) social movement and the Alternative for Germany party (AfD).

Commentary: A Qualitative Analysis of Newspaper Polls

1988 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 105-114
Author(s):  
David Pearce Demers
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Long Run ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Scientific Standards ◽  
And Training

Previous research and this study's data suggest newspaper polls often fall short of “scientific” standards. Part of the problem is that many newspapers rely heavily on their news staff for many key aspects in the research process, including data analysis. News organizations are encouraged to rely more on “experts,” but for the long run they need to implement programs and policies that give journalists themselves the education and training necessary to handle all phases of the research process.

How Not to Go Beyond Marx: A Reply to Worrell and Krier

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Smith
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Capitalist Society ◽  
Critical Social Theory ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
General Direction ◽  
Fatal Flaw ◽  
The Right ◽  
Political Imaginary

Worrell and Krier’s ‘Atopia Awaits! A Critical Sociological Analysis of Marx’s Political Imaginary’ raises serious issues regarding Marx’s legacy. They hold that a fatal flaw in Marx’s framework can be detected in his account of a post-capitalist society, which reveals a theoretically impoverished and politically dangerous neglect of essential features of social life. I argue that there are good reasons to reject Worrell and Krier’s thesis that Marx got immensely important things horribly wrong. Marx’s limited remarks on post-capitalist society are certainly inadequate in numerous respects. However, they point in the right general direction, and Worrell and Krier fail to offer a satisfactory alternative. The prospects for a critical social theory adequate to the immense challenges of the 21st century would be harmed if their readers agreed with the paper’s main thesis.

Dialogs ar vizuālo mākslu: mākslinieks un mākslas darbs

2021 ◽  
pp. 183-191
Author(s):  
Inta Klāsone ◽  
Solvita Spirģe-Sēne
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Personal Values ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
Learning And Development ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Public Consciousness

Nowadays, various forms of visual art have brought closer people’s daily lives to the processes that occur in the society. At the same time, the visually fulfilled environment has created favourable conditions for misunderstanding the contexts and meanings of artworks. This article draws attention to the fact that dialogue with visual art can be an important tool for developing personal values and promoting the spiritual understanding of a cultural environment. The topicality of the issue is supported by the educational trends of the 21st century – to educate comprehensive people who are capable of doing a wide range of tasks, constantly continuing their learning and development. Art plays an initiator’s role in social life and it encompasses all spiritual realms of humanity, which cannot be accomplished by other forms of public consciousness. A work of art can be viewed as a multi-layered expression of thoughts in an artistic form of images and symbols. The artist's work means producing a coded text or message. This article includes insights of scholars and artists developing an understanding of the artist’s work and artworks in a cultural and historical context to enrich the individual's competence base, and examples of the work and beliefs of particular artists of the 21st century.

Latvijas izglītības reformas vērtējums pedagogu vidē pamatskolas 1.–3. klasē: gadījuma analīzes piemērs

2021 ◽  
pp. 48-58
Author(s):  
Ivita Pelnēna ◽  
Arturs Medveckis
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
21St Century ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Learning Content ◽  
Insufficient Amount ◽  
New Learning ◽  
Educational Paradigm ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
Academic Year

The 21st century is an essential time for changes in the society. Development of technologies, globalisation and the fading of national boundaries all contribute to a change of the educational paradigm. The changes also affect the Latvian education system as the implementation of the project “Competency approach in learning content” is in progress. The implementation of the new learning content has began on September 1 of the academic year 2020/2021. To determine the Primary school teachers’ (Grades 1-3) readiness for putting the changes into practice, a survey was conducted. The survey data analysis shows that the teachers admit that changes are necessary; meanwhile they believe that the implementation of changes is chaotic. Likewise, teachers are not insecure about the new learning content that is added to the curriculum. Teachers discuss problems such as information fragmentation, lack of technologies and learning materials, insufficient amount of lessons intended for a particular content as well as its influence on qualitative preparation of lessons.

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