01:920:311 Lecture 2: Approaches to Social Research
7 Nov 2018
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Canvasing: what made it the worst? (class answers, sexual harassment, overworked, asymmetrical: one person does all the work, disrespect, unprofessional, little pay, non enjoyable jobs/dead end jobs. Scientific reasoning circle: stages aren"t separate from each other, you often must go back and forth between them, theory: a logically interrelated set of statements about empirical reality, identifies things we expect to happen, how and why. Types of research: deductive research: a specific expectation (hypothesis) is derived from a general premise (theory) and then tested, starts with a theory and looks for data to confirm or deny the theory, top down approach. Approaches to research: descriptive research: trying to generate statists; documenting that differences exists not really telling us why that is the case or any link to theories, eg. Which states had the highest voter turnout in the most recent presidential election: open ended: collect complex explanations through interview format, eg.
