Research methods | Sociology homework help

answer each question please 

readings and videos for each part are provided below.

Part one

• What are the pitfalls of “common sense” observations and logic? Provide three examples.
• What is “positionality,” and what are its components? How do these components influence our perceptions, understandings, and conclusions about the world—including the questions we ask and our common-sense observations and logic?
• Social research examines patterns of relationships (that is, patterns of interconnections). What three basic themes of patterned relationships/interconnections does social research examine (pages 6-8 [ending before “How Social Research…”])? Provide an example for each of the three basic themes.

Part two

• As described by Mencimer, how does Edlin’s poverty research attempt to overcome the pitfalls of common-sense observation and logic, common errors in reasoning, and her own positionality?
• How does Edlin’s research address the three basic themes of patterned social relationships?

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/03/kathryn-edin-poverty-research-fatherhood/

https://sites.middlebury.edu/utopias/files/2013/02/The-Promise.pdf

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-power-prime/201107/common-sense-is-neither-common-nor-sense