Sociologists affiliated with three universities in Western Canada were interviewed in a study designed to explore important influences on current research interests. Categories of influence were constructed and subjects were grouped according to similarities in mentioned influences. It was found that subjects who mentioned similar influences on their research interests displayed other similarities in the way in which they related to their research topics and to the discipline. A typology based on subjects' research orientations to their research topics was constructed.
Evidence presented in the thesis suggests that the particular research orientation of any sociologist may represent an important factor in determining the kind of research that he or she produces. The small sampling in this study prevented systematic analysis of the influence of factors such as citizenship and graduate school training as determinants of research interests. However, data presented suggests that the research orientation of sociologists
should be included, as a variable, in any large-scale study of the effects of citizenship and graduate training on the research carried out by sociologists in Canada. / Arts, Faculty of / Sociology, Department of / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UBC/oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/33018 |
| Date | January 1973 |
| Creators | Hanson, Candace Pauline |
| Publisher | University of British Columbia |
| Source Sets | University of British Columbia |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis/Dissertation |
| Rights | For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use. |
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