SSCI 2900U Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Antipositivism, Symbolic Interactionism, Statistical Hypothesis Testing
19 May 2016
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Lecture one, research methods, introduction to research and social science injury, may 10th. Epistemology: what we can know & how we can come to know it **important. Ontology: the study of how we exist; looks at reality***important. An explanation of observed regularities or patterns. Interrelated and usually verifiable statements or propositions. To assess the adequacy of a particular social theory. To gather information to create social theory. Predetermined theory that brings one to look at social interaction through a particular framework or can be; Observation of social interaction without a specific theoretical base. Specify what the key terms in a theory mean. Ex: crime is any violation of the canadian criminal code and includes crimes like arson, assault, fraud etc. Outline the characteristics of the phenomena of interest (define what you are more targeting) Ex: arson involves the illegal setting of fires, either to abandoned buildings or houses. Deterministic 2 variables always go together in a particular way.
