Tag: qualitative methods
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The protest “research panopticon” and the right to be forgotten
As political sociologists endeavor to be a “completist” in the description of protest, there must be a data collection plan that is feasible within the time, personnel, and funding, and, above all, ethical. Consider the situation where you would want to know everything about the protest in order to study it qualitatively. Imagine that you…
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Protest Event Reports (PERs): A Method for Qualitative Analysis
Qualitative research into how street protests are performed and framed, especially across multiple events within a set time and geographic space, requires detailed data on past protests that is tantamount to documentary reconstruction. Whereas there are various ways to qualitatively reconstruct a single or a few protest events, the options are limited for a larger…
