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Netra Shetty
Dollar General Corp. is a chain of variety stores operating in 35 U.S. states. The chain operates over 9,000 stores[2] and is headquartered in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville. The stores were founded in 1939 by Cal Turner in Scottsville, Kentucky as J.L. Turner & Son, Inc. In 1968 they changed the name to Dollar General Corporation. As of the third fiscal quarter of 2007, the company was acquired by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), a private equity firm, who took the company public in 2009.[3][dead link]
Dollar General stores are typically in small shopping plazas or strip malls in local neighborhoods. The company acquired the 280 stores of the P.N. Hirsh Division of Interco, Inc. (now Furniture Brands International, Inc.) in 1983 and in 1985 added 206 stores and a warehouse from Eagle Family Discount Stores, also from Interco, Inc. In recent years, the chain has started constructing more stand-alone stores, typically in areas not served by another general-merchandise retailer. In some cases, stores are within a few city blocks of each other.
Dollar General offers both name brand and generic merchandise — including off-brand goods and closeouts of name-brand items — in the same store, often on the same shelf.
this form of research the marketer tries to determine if the manipulation of one variable, called the independent variable, affects another variable, called the dependent variable. In essence, the marketer is conducting an experiment. To be effective the design of causal research is highly structured and controlled so that other factors do not affect those being studied.
Marketers use this approach primarily for purposes of prediction and to test hypotheses, though it can also be used to a lesser extent for discovery and explanatory purposes. In marketing, causal research is used for many types of research including testing marketing scenarios, such as what might happen to product sales if changes are made to a product’s design or if advertising is changed. If causal research is performed well marketers may be able to use results for forecasting what might happen if the changes are made.
- Ideal types could be either theoretical or descriptive as these types would remain closer to directly given evidence such as in psychology domain, DSM-III, for example, explicitly seeks to keep its criteria close to direct evidence
- Theoretical types would move away from direct evidence by referring to hypothetical processes or entities at work behind the direct givens. In postulating that a phenomenon, such as an obsessive symptom, arises as a defense against anxiety, DSM-II provided theoretical types
- Ideal types could remain qualitative conceptions of disorders and or some of attributes designated in ideal types could be characterized in quantitative terms since, features expressed in ideal types appear in different patients in varying degrees, these gradations could be quantified
Social Research Process and Approach
Thus, one better consideration into the understanding of ideal type is asserted in social research framework as being linked to the role of analytic frames as adopted for social science, as there is methods triangulation of case study, surveys, interviews and questionnaires that are being in fixed pattern from within flexible change during research flow. The ideal frames may be elaborated at the outset of better planned research project and remain active throughout the study, often necessary, for example, in studies that seek to test theories. In essence, certain idealization does adhere for the implementation of research design and or hypothesis to be tested. If images constructed from the evidence are inconsistent with the hypothesis, then the hypothesis is rejected. Fixed frames are also common in research that seeks to make predictions based on current trends and in studies that seek to document research success and application. There has been process of analytic frame as the latter readily translates to survey format, for example, several of the potential voters are being queried about appropriate demographic characteristics into various voting behavior (Page and Shapiro, 199I), simple translation from the analytic frame to survey data permits a direct test of the idea that first inspired the frame, as voters make ample rational choices.
The Challenge of Social Research
True that, research ideas and evidence is everywhere and people are busy constructing representations of social life, the ways of constructing representations require different kinds of regimen, and for social research technique is strict, being reinforced by primary mode of research studies into ideal type of social research, as there demand clear specification of ideas that guide research methodology as well as the systematic examination of evidence utilized in building solid structure of knowledge representations. Indeed, one challenge of social research is to be able to construct powerful and instructive representation of social life that contributes to conversations of social theories, embracing in-depth evidence about ideal types in systematic manner through building in dialogue of ideas of social science approaches. The researcher may link pieces of evidence together to make reasoned concepts in valid assimilation then, the analytic frame provide effective context for creating and understanding image, establishing conceptual boundaries around evidence based study linking to the Weber’s ideal type and how it is deemed useful for research. Therefore, it is often forgotten that Weber's concept of ideal type are developed in research, often assumed that Weber means ideal type whenever Weber used the term type. Friedeburg mentioned that Weber uses different kinds of ideal types that an ideal type may exist in reality sometimes but not all the time, but this is not a sufficient justification to call the empirical types discussed above ideal types. Thus, it is misleading to identify Weber's sociological methodology with his method of the ideal types. In doing so, one will not become aware of the exceptional aspects of Weber's approach, his thinking in terms of types, into paradigmatic debate on qualitative versus quantitative methodology towards integration and mixing of various social science methods, it is useful to describe intelligence the representation of research analysis that Weber proposed in his empirical research.
Dollar General stores are typically in small shopping plazas or strip malls in local neighborhoods. The company acquired the 280 stores of the P.N. Hirsh Division of Interco, Inc. (now Furniture Brands International, Inc.) in 1983 and in 1985 added 206 stores and a warehouse from Eagle Family Discount Stores, also from Interco, Inc. In recent years, the chain has started constructing more stand-alone stores, typically in areas not served by another general-merchandise retailer. In some cases, stores are within a few city blocks of each other.
Dollar General offers both name brand and generic merchandise — including off-brand goods and closeouts of name-brand items — in the same store, often on the same shelf.
this form of research the marketer tries to determine if the manipulation of one variable, called the independent variable, affects another variable, called the dependent variable. In essence, the marketer is conducting an experiment. To be effective the design of causal research is highly structured and controlled so that other factors do not affect those being studied.
Marketers use this approach primarily for purposes of prediction and to test hypotheses, though it can also be used to a lesser extent for discovery and explanatory purposes. In marketing, causal research is used for many types of research including testing marketing scenarios, such as what might happen to product sales if changes are made to a product’s design or if advertising is changed. If causal research is performed well marketers may be able to use results for forecasting what might happen if the changes are made.
- Ideal types could be either theoretical or descriptive as these types would remain closer to directly given evidence such as in psychology domain, DSM-III, for example, explicitly seeks to keep its criteria close to direct evidence
- Theoretical types would move away from direct evidence by referring to hypothetical processes or entities at work behind the direct givens. In postulating that a phenomenon, such as an obsessive symptom, arises as a defense against anxiety, DSM-II provided theoretical types
- Ideal types could remain qualitative conceptions of disorders and or some of attributes designated in ideal types could be characterized in quantitative terms since, features expressed in ideal types appear in different patients in varying degrees, these gradations could be quantified
Social Research Process and Approach
Thus, one better consideration into the understanding of ideal type is asserted in social research framework as being linked to the role of analytic frames as adopted for social science, as there is methods triangulation of case study, surveys, interviews and questionnaires that are being in fixed pattern from within flexible change during research flow. The ideal frames may be elaborated at the outset of better planned research project and remain active throughout the study, often necessary, for example, in studies that seek to test theories. In essence, certain idealization does adhere for the implementation of research design and or hypothesis to be tested. If images constructed from the evidence are inconsistent with the hypothesis, then the hypothesis is rejected. Fixed frames are also common in research that seeks to make predictions based on current trends and in studies that seek to document research success and application. There has been process of analytic frame as the latter readily translates to survey format, for example, several of the potential voters are being queried about appropriate demographic characteristics into various voting behavior (Page and Shapiro, 199I), simple translation from the analytic frame to survey data permits a direct test of the idea that first inspired the frame, as voters make ample rational choices.
The Challenge of Social Research
True that, research ideas and evidence is everywhere and people are busy constructing representations of social life, the ways of constructing representations require different kinds of regimen, and for social research technique is strict, being reinforced by primary mode of research studies into ideal type of social research, as there demand clear specification of ideas that guide research methodology as well as the systematic examination of evidence utilized in building solid structure of knowledge representations. Indeed, one challenge of social research is to be able to construct powerful and instructive representation of social life that contributes to conversations of social theories, embracing in-depth evidence about ideal types in systematic manner through building in dialogue of ideas of social science approaches. The researcher may link pieces of evidence together to make reasoned concepts in valid assimilation then, the analytic frame provide effective context for creating and understanding image, establishing conceptual boundaries around evidence based study linking to the Weber’s ideal type and how it is deemed useful for research. Therefore, it is often forgotten that Weber's concept of ideal type are developed in research, often assumed that Weber means ideal type whenever Weber used the term type. Friedeburg mentioned that Weber uses different kinds of ideal types that an ideal type may exist in reality sometimes but not all the time, but this is not a sufficient justification to call the empirical types discussed above ideal types. Thus, it is misleading to identify Weber's sociological methodology with his method of the ideal types. In doing so, one will not become aware of the exceptional aspects of Weber's approach, his thinking in terms of types, into paradigmatic debate on qualitative versus quantitative methodology towards integration and mixing of various social science methods, it is useful to describe intelligence the representation of research analysis that Weber proposed in his empirical research.
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