SOAN 3070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Video Lottery Terminal, Verstehen, Hermeneutic Circle
9 Feb 2017
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Qualitative researchers: look at, text, meanings and interpretations. What approach to explanation could social scientists use: quantitative or qualitative: many forms of legal gambling have expanded rapidly in alberta since the early 1990s. Provincial politicians sought new source of revenue without raising taxes and wanted to promote economic development. The gambling industry promised the government new jobs and economic revitalization. The government wants to examine the social impact of video lottery terminals. We want to examine the social impact. Might imply both quantitative and qualitative methodology. This case has more to do with qualitative methodology. But one fact is most important developing relationship with the european union but we do admit there is a number of factors. What does the concept of equifinality mean: multiple causal facts to the same outcome, number of factors that may lead to an outcome. Not aware of history but we can see the divorce rate has been stable since.
