Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Operationalization, Grounded Theory, Inductive Reasoning
3 Apr 2016
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*sociologists are reluctant to use strategies such as looking at personal experience or asking authority because of their potenial from distorion. Personal experience is usually not general enough to produce accurate statements about the larger society. *quesions about divorce and social life in general, require a research project of some sort. They want to collect and analyze data from a wide variety of seings before drawing any conclusions. *durkheim adopted a posiion called posiivism; he wanted the research methods of the natural sciences, appropriately adapted for the social sciences. Otherwise known as quanitaive methods, couning and precise measurements of observable behaviour, a limited number of variables and predicion are hallmarks of a quanitaive approach. *weber believed social sciences should not copy research methods and experimental designs of the natural sciences. Human behaviour is unique and more complex because of the subjecive meanings and moivaions atached to it. Sociologists need to understand behaviour not just predict it.
