What is the difference between discourse analysis and content analysis?
What will be an ideal response?
Discourse analysis looks at language, or what is being said. It examines the words used to communicate and conduct a conversation. Content analysis looks at the words being said, counts them, and categorizes them in various ways. The key difference is that content analysis is not simply looking at what words are used to convey a message. It is looking at why the words are said, the meanings produced by the words, and how the words are understood by the party receiving them. Content analysis puts the words exchanged into a social context, and learns to appreciate the culturally specific ways of speaking and organizing thoughts through pattern and frequency analysis. It looks at what certain words are intended to do in the specific social setting they are uttered within. Counting words, terms, and themes allows researchers to see some of the variations and nuances in how social groups use words in exchanges to create social worlds.
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_________________ is an ideal way to evaluate changes in an individual or
organizational policy over time, due to purposeful interventions by the social worker. a. Experimental design b. Single subject design c. Quasi experimental design d. Evaluation
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