POL SCI 3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Negative Relationship, Time Series, Fokker E.Ii
7 Sep 2016
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Ch4 the building blocks of social scientific research: Beyond specifying the research question, must take all these steps (do not have to be in order): (1) propose explanation for the phenomena under study a. Identify phenomena we think helps account for the object of the research and specify how and why these phenomena are related: pol scientists refer to phenomena as variables b. i. Explanatory phenomena that influence/affect/causes another phenomenon independent variable b. ii. Dependent variable caused by, depend upon an independent variable b. iii. Antecedent variables: v that occurs before all other v and d. ii. may affect other independent v. Intervening variable: v that occurs closer in time to the dependent v and is affected by other independent v: arrow diagram helps present and keep track of complicated explanations e. i. Arrow indicate that one v is thought to explain or be related to another e. ii.
