SOC221 Lecture 2: Week 1, Class 2
14 Jan 2019
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What influences our choice of research topic and method. Influences on social scientific research (social) scientific inquiry. Seek to discover patterns of interrelationships between variables by observing the empirical world. What are the variables related to that question. You want to understand how something works; not natural science, social science. Want to understand what causes a certain phenomenon. The mechanisms that lead to a certain outcome. Looking around us and collecting data and testing theories to understand how something works. Many motives that pushes a researcher to pursue the study of a topic. Motives with existing theoretical debates in the field as well as assumptions will have an impact on the choice of research design. Shapes how you analyze data; what you are interested in, what you aren"t. The topic you choose; typically choose what you are passionate about to understand; understanding a phenomenon that"s interesting to you.
