SOSC 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Deductive Reasoning, Discourse Analysis, Inductive Reasoning
12 Dec 2015
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Methodology= path: social science research: to describe, understand, and influence the social world. To develop remedies for social problems, social change. Often subversive strategies: research strategy: orientation; quantitative and qualitative research. Starts with a theory and tries to prove or: epistemology: positivist orientation. We can best know things through: ontological orientation: objectivism. Phenomena have an objective: the role of values: value-neutral or objective stance. Researcher explain with research findings. experiments and statistics. existence must be unbiased. Generate his theory out of research: epistemology: interpretivist position. Meanings we attach to: the role of values: research can never be totally value-free. Qualitative researchers use inductive reasoning social phenomena are socially constructed. Positivist: concerned with prediction and control: relativist: look for the exercise of power, power relations. Interpretive: how social actors understand their own and others" actions and in temper and tone.
