SLWK 380 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Spurious Relationship, Qualitative Inquiry, Literature Review
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Should come from decisions that confront social service agencies, or from a need for information to solve practical problems in social welfare. Need to review to know if the question has already been adequately answered. Prime source for selecting a research question. Needs to be posed in a way that can be answered by observable evidence. Identifying the things you want to study and providing a theoretical or conceptual rationale as to how they are interrelated and why you have chosen them for study. Variables: concepts that researchers plan to investigate. Concept: a mental image that symbolizes an idea, an object, an event, a behavior, a person, and so on. Attributes: the different variations or categories of concepts. Relationship: a change in one variable is likely to be associated with a change in the other variable. Researchers predict in advance the relationships they expect to find between or among variables.
