The Basics of Social Research 6th Edition by Earl Babbie

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Analyze a qualitative research report: Dingxin Zhao, "State-Society Relations and the Discourses and Activities of the 1989 Beijing Student Movement," American Journal of Sociology 105, no. 6 (May 2000): 1592. (This can be accessed in print or online through InfoTrac College Edition, for example.) Use the following questions as your guide:
a. What is the author's main research question?
b. What theoretical frameworks are referred to, and which ones are used?
c. What methodology is the author using? What type of data collection was chosen? What is the unit of analysis?
d. Does the author have a hypothesis? If so, what is it?
e. How does the author conceptualize key terms such as state, state-society , and traditionalism ?
f. What are the study's findings?
g. What is the significance of this study? Are you convinced by the author, or do you see weaknesses in the study?