SCS 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Antipositivism, Arson, Symbolic Interactionism
9 Mar 2016
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Goal is to assess the adequacy of a particular social theory (ex: theory of. Gather information to create theories (interviewing homeless on street). Theory and research: form of the theory, relationship between data and theory. Ex: schizophrenia more common in working class that middle class. Composed of interrelated and verifiable statements or propositions. 3 components of a theory: definitions: what key terms in the theory mean. Ex: crime is any violation of the canadian criminal code in arson : descriptions: outline characteristics of the phenomena of interest, relational statements: Connect two or more variables, knowing the value of one variable conveys information about the other. As arson experiences downturn, the arson rates increases : deterministic: 2 variables always go together in a particular way. As economy shrinks 1%, arson rate increases by 5% : probabilistic: 2 variables go together with some degree of regularity, relationship is not inevitable. Only phenomena confirmed by senses can be accepted as knowledge:
