SOCI 313 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Risk Assessment, Research, Ethnography
8 Oct 2017
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Deterministic statement: a theory in a way that is already proved and has a social truth abstract enough to draw others things. Probabilistic statements: a is likely to cause high rate of b (example) Analogy for theory: piece of puzzles are concept and the puzzle that is solved is the theory. Limited in scope and can be tested directly. Grand theories: general and abstract and cannot be tested directly. Idiographic: explains single situation and or individuals with unique characteristic, histories that sets them apart from the whole, more deterministic. Nomothetic: study the classes/groups/cohorts of individuals or situation, an exemplar of traits/characteristic of larger population is probabilistic. Deductive method: the most common approach to social research, using deduction, one begins with a theory or explanation for something, then goes out into the world and tests it theory to observations/finding. Inductive method: begins by gathering or examining data and then tries to derive a theory or explanation from data observations/findings to theory.
