SOC 357 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Nomothetic, Unita, Fallacy
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Ii: exploration, used to explore new interest ii. iii. iv, reasons: Shortcoming: don"t often provide good answers to research questions, not very definitive: description, careful and deliberate observation, then describe observation, i. e. us census ii. Most" things but not all: inherently probabilistic, allows for more possibilities, criteria for nomothetic causality, three criteria for nomothetic causal relationships in social research, variables must be correlated, correlation empirical relationship between two variables, does not prove causality, time order, cause must precede effect in time, nonspuriousness, effect can"t be explained by a third variable, spurious relationships coincidental statistical correlation caused by a third variable, nomothetic causal analysis and hypothesis testing, specify variables that you think are causally related and how you will measure them, strength of relationship statistical significance, what tests for spuriousness, false criteria for nomothetic causality, complete causation, probabilistic and usually incomplete ii.
