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START. Researching Riots, Disorder, Conflict. Researching Society and Culture 7 th January 2014 Hannah Jones. This term : How can we research… Week 1: Riots, disorder, conflict Week 2: Researching migration, migrants and transnationalism Week 3: Studying ‘communities’

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  2. ResearchingRiots, Disorder, Conflict Researching Society and Culture 7th January 2014 Hannah Jones

  3. This term: How can we research… Week 1: Riots, disorder, conflict Week 2: Researching migration, migrants and transnationalism Week 3: Studying ‘communities’ Week 4: Disability Week 5: Literature reviews Week 6: Reading week Week 7: Researching class Week 8: Urban poverty Week 9: Working lives and globalization Week 10: Slums and the informal economy

  4. The context of research The range of methods The reasons to choose one method or another.

  5. ASSESSMENT • Book Review (formative class essay, due Week 5 in seminars) • Professional Skills Assignment: (Week 8, Term 2) 10%. • Assessed Essay (Week 1, Term 3): 25% • Two-hour written examination (Summer Term): 40%

  6. What is the RESEARCH QUESTION? WHO is asking? HOW did they do the research? … and WHY?

  7. What are riots? or Defining the research field

  8. What are riots? Or Defining the research field

  9. Operationalisation What do you (the researcher) mean by ‘riot’? You could use: • Legal definitions • Dictionary definitions • Existing research studies • Empirical description

  10. A legal definition: Riot Under section 1 of the Act, it must be proved that:  • twelve or more persons; • present together; • used or threatened unlawful violence (all charged must use); • for a common purpose; and that  • the conduct of them (taken together); • was such as to cause; • a person of reasonable firmness; • present at the scene; • to fear for his personal safety. http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/p_to_r/public_order_offences/#Riot

  11. DEDUCTIVE approach: Starting from a definition and setting out to find instances of this to study; Starting from a hypothesis which you wish to test INDUCTIVE approach Starting from ‘the field’, developing theories and concepts to test based on what you find

  12. http://www.theguardian.com/uk/series/reading-the-riots

  13. http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/vis/FullScreen/fullscreenvisualization.html?id=files%2Fthumbnails%2F4eb34ab2-218e-11e1-8655-000255111976.wm.png&visId=4ee8a59a218e11e18655000255111976http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/vis/FullScreen/fullscreenvisualization.html?id=files%2Fthumbnails%2F4eb34ab2-218e-11e1-8655-000255111976.wm.png&visId=4ee8a59a218e11e18655000255111976

  14. What is the RESEARCH QUESTION? WHO is asking? HOW did they do the research? … and WHY?

  15. http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20121003195935/http:/riotspanel.independent.gov.uk/http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20121003195935/http:/riotspanel.independent.gov.uk/

  16. http://www.runnymedetrust.org/projects-and-publications/projects/riot-roundtables-2.htmlhttp://www.runnymedetrust.org/projects-and-publications/projects/riot-roundtables-2.html

  17. http://www.natcen.ac.uk/our-research/research/the-august-riots-in-england-study/http://www.natcen.ac.uk/our-research/research/the-august-riots-in-england-study/

  18. http://www.hcvs.org.uk/index.php?category=14&sec=67&page=230

  19. The difference between: Description and Explanation

  20. The difference between: What happened and Why it happened

  21. Also remember there is a difference between: What happened and How it was represented … and both might be interesting research

  22. Also remember there is a difference between: ‘The riots’ (the nature of violent conflict) and ‘The riots’ in public knowledge (the cultural representation of that conflict) … and both might be interesting research

  23. TO SUMMARISE What is the research question? E.g. • What happened on this occasion? Why it happened? • Is there a pattern to rioting? Can we compare riots? • How do people decide what is a riot? Does everyone mean the same thing? • What were the effects of riots? Of the way people react to them? Each of these require different methods and approaches. Can you identify the differences between these types of questions in examples of research you have read?

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