POL 2156 Chapter Notes -Operational Definition

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 2156
• Professor: Stephanie Mullen

Document Summary

Phase 2: data collection first you collect data on your subject and then and then summarize it. Research as a discipline: research questions have two basic properties, they are limited to certain time or places and it is a small fragment of a large question. Theory: - a guess about the way things are and it asserts a relationship between concepts. Data: this is facts produced by research and these facts acquire meaning when they are related to a theory. Literature review: this is an important step because you embed your findings within larger research debates. It can help you to define a research question by looking at other studies. Hypothesis: a statement that asserts a relationship between concepts you can diagram your hypothesis (aka causal models) Research objectives: this is better used to describe the type of research that you are doing (when there is no concrete statement aka hypothesis)