CMN 3103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Herbert Blumer, Deductive Reasoning, Inductive Reasoning
17 Oct 2017
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Textbook ppt notes: chapter 2: asking questions and identifying goals. To understand the importance of questions in social research. To comprehend the differences between qualitative and quantitative research. To understand the underlying assumptions associated with qualitative research. To learn about generic social processes and how scholars use them in their research. Qualitative research depends on the development of questions. The way we ask questions determines what kinds of answers we get. These answers become our data in qualitative research. Researchers depend on research participate to answer our questions and provide insight into why they have particular opinions or act in certain ways. Quantitative and qualitative researchers ask different types of questions based on different assumptions about the nature of reality. First developed for the social sciences by auguste compte. Argued that researchers could adapt the quantitative methods of science for use in the social sciences. Developed in accordance with positivism, which has three principal attributes:
