SOAN 2120 Chapter 7: SOAN 2120 - Chapter 7. Notes
12 Feb 2016
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Introduction it builds on the principles of the positivist approach more than the others. It is found in a lot of subjects such as: journalism, criminal justice, education, marketing, nursing, etc. the basic logic extends from common sense thinking. There is no right answer because the question and the technique is not xed but is based on informal judgement. The questions that are appropriate are those that the logic confronts ethical and practical limitations of intervening in human affairs for research purposes. The pure logic has an experimenter intervene induce a change in some focused part of social life then examine the consequences that result from the change or intervention. They cannot manipulate conditions or randomly assign. It is best to be used for issues that have a narrow scope or scale. this strength allows experimenters to assemble and run many experiments with limited resources in in a short period.
