{"id":225,"date":"2018-04-02T14:33:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T18:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst399sprg2018\/?p=225"},"modified":"2018-04-02T14:33:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T18:33:24","slug":"research-methods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst399sprg2018\/2018\/04\/02\/research-methods\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Methods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My topic is very much in the social science field as I hope to discover why people vote as they do and what&#8217;s most important to them in their voting decision. Therefore, my research will likely include a fair amount of empirical secondary source research as well as some original experimental or survey research. If possible, I would love to map something or create some interactive way to engage with my findings as well.<\/p>\n<p>I have already begun my reading of secondary sources, and as I&#8217;m starting to comprehend the multitude of readings which I will need to complete for my research, I&#8217;m beginning to think that it might be worth my while to do a separate literature review on my topic as I way to organize the readings and my thoughts on them. While most of my sources will be secondary sources from prior research related to my topic, I would also be interested in investigating some primary sources such as interviews with voters or raw data of voting behavior. I believe that doing so would bring more originality to my project and allow me to reach a more significant conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not quite sure how I&#8217;ll go about my original experimental research, but I am certain that I would like to do it. I think that my biggest challenge with this will be finding a sample of participants outside of college students so that my research can adequately represent all voters in the United States. I am excited to work with Dr. Archer on this and to give it more thought so that I can successfully gather information that will successfully confirm or deny my research hypothesis.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I mentioned above that I would love to create something more interactive than a paper to represent my findings. I&#8217;m not sure that a geographic map could be created from my research, but maybe a mind map or some other tool related to my findings could be created. I would really enjoy the creative process involved in such a project, and leaving something more tangible than a paper behind when I&#8217;m done would be very satisfying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My topic is very much in the social science field as I hope to discover why people vote as they do and what&#8217;s most important to them in their voting decision. Therefore, my research will likely include a fair amount &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst399sprg2018\/2018\/04\/02\/research-methods\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2472,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst399sprg2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst399sprg2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst399sprg2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst399sprg2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2472"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst399sprg2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst399sprg2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst399sprg2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst399sprg2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst399sprg2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}