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  2. Types of social groups - Wikipedia

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    As such, primary groups or lack thereof [citation needed] play an important role in the development of personal identity, and can be understood as tight circles composed of people such as family, long-term romances, crisis-support group, church group, etc. [4] The concept of the primary group was first introduced in 1909 by sociologist Charles ...

  3. Research - Wikipedia

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    Artistic research, also seen as 'practice-based research', can take form when creative works are considered both the research and the object of research itself. It is the debatable body of thought which offers an alternative to purely scientific methods in research in its search for knowledge and truth.

  4. Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (science) - Wikipedia

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    The line between primary and secondary sources is not always clear. In general, primary sources include descriptions of an individual experiment or a series of experiments by the same research group; secondary sources include independent review articles summarizing a line of research or rectifying apparently discordant results.

  5. Group dynamics - Wikipedia

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    Past research has identified four basic types of groups which include, but are not limited to: primary groups, social groups, collective groups, and categories. [30] It is important to define these four types of groups because they are intuitive to most lay people.

  6. Wikipedia:Identifying and using tertiary sources - Wikipedia

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    The medium is not the message; source evaluation is an evaluation of content, not publication format. Sometimes high-quality, generally tertiary individual sources are also primary or secondary sources for some material. Two examples are etymological research that is the original work of a dictionary's staff (primary); and analytical not just regurgitative material in a topical encycl

  7. Wikipedia:Identifying and using primary sources - Wikipedia

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    Primary sources can be reliable, and they can be used. Sometimes, a primary source is even the best possible source, such as when you are supporting a direct quotation. In such cases, the original document is the best source because the original document will be free of any errors or misquotations introduced by subsequent sources.

  8. Qualitative research - Wikipedia

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    Qualitative methods include ethnography, grounded theory, discourse analysis, and interpretative phenomenological analysis. [1] Qualitative research methods have been used in sociology, anthropology, political science, psychology, communication studies, social work, folklore, educational research, information science and software engineering ...

  9. Primary source - Wikipedia

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    This wall painting found in the Roman city of Pompeii is an example of a primary source about people in Pompeii in Roman times (portrait of Terentius Neo).. In the study of history as an academic discipline, a primary source (also called an original source) is an artifact, document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, recording, or any other source of information that was created at the time ...