Crime, which is the breaking of a law, is a social construct. Explain this statement and support your analysis with examples. Crime is commonly known as an unlawful act committed in violation of the law where the state wishes to prevent it, by convictions of the court often resulting in a fine or imprisonment. But according to social constructionists, the definition of crime varies depending on who defines it. Social constructs are used to define notions that are assigned to objects, or events in
believing in absolute truth as the positivists do. Most social science research uses qualitative research method or paradigm viewing the world as being constructed by the participants and their experience. Although, quantitative approaches such as post positivism and experimental realism considers the view of subjective reality, therefore, quantitative approaches can and are used in social science research as
considered as a framework based on people´s philosophies and assumptions about current knowledge. The paradigm guides how research should be accomplished and there are mainly two fundamental paradigms that are used; positivism and interpretivism (Collis and Hussey, 2014). Positivism is associated with deductive theory and quantitative methods whereas interpretivism is associated with findings being derived from qualitative methods. This motivates the reason to choose interpretivism for this research
confluent but even in these cases, where they seemingly diverge, the fundamental unity may become noticeable on deeper perception. What is the research paradigm informing the understanding of the research problem? Positivism paradigm is informing the understanding of the research problem. Positivism paradigm includes such concepts as quantifications, hypotheses, and objective measures. For the positivist researcher, reality is objective it occur apart from the researchers and can be perceived by all. In
behaviour of students for buying apparels. • To explore different theories, models and concepts regarding online and offline purchase behaviour. • To analyse different online websites used by students in purchasing apparels and to identify their advantages and disadvantages. 1.3 Research questions RQ1. Why it is important to understand online and offline purchase behaviour of students for buying apparels? RQ2. What are the different models, theories and concepts
What are The Reasons that Affect Customer Retention in the Construction Industry of Maldives? Table of Contents LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES 3 1 INTRODUCTION 3 1.1 Research Background 4 2 RESEARCH AIM & OBJECTIVES 5 2.1 Research Objectives 5 3 RESEARCH QUESTIONS 5 4 LITERATURE REVIEW 5 4.1 Definitions of Key Concepts 6 4.1.1 Customer Retention 6 4.1.2 Corporate Image 6 4.1.3 Quality 6 4.1.4 Project Management 7 4.1.5 Relationship with the Customer 7 4.2 Critical Review of Theories and Models Regarding
collected concurrently and the results compared which is a triangulation of methods. Different perspectives were also recorded from various persons through open-ended questions in questionnaire and interviews which is a Triangulation of subjects. The advantage with this approach is that it overcomes the weakness in one method with the strengths of another. It can also be useful in expanding quantitative data through collection of open-ended qualitative data. The importance of this method is that it uses
LSM The impact of intellectual property rights on preserving the competitive advantage. A case study of Apple Inc’s iPhones . Word Count: 14,014 Abstract The world today has rapidly developed into a services industry where knowledge is power. Knowledge provides means of acquiring newer technologies which then businesses can then use to create new products. In this context, IPRs become a valuable asset that firms can use strategically to lessen or prevent competition. IPRs are basically
Brand Asset management is an era connected with increasing value to marketing experts today, particularly as organizations shift toward attempts to converse ever complicated and intangible messages as part of brand management strategies (Davis, 2000; Good child & Callow, 2001). One of the numerous exciting questions dealing with present day brand managers worry on how to develop a better understanding of the proper relationship between constructs such as customer loyalty and brand equity, particularly
a new world like Africa and Americas. They also made fantasy and dark atmosphere and incredible creatures hate to be a tool for the destruction and fears of anarchy. They want create emotions that hate against the oppression of other and taking advantage of other for the sake of self-interest. As a result of this movement comes the nation of socialism that was created by Karl Marx and the nation was criticized those has label as capitalist industry because the industry only want benefits without