SOCL 2001 Lecture : 9 23 13 Notes
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Epistemology your ways of knowing the world. Normative approach: (common sense) world view informed by legend, common sense, non-scientific observations, and old wives tales ect. (heritage) Empirical approach: informed by fact as derived from systematic collection and analysis of objective data: deductive approach to theory hypotheses are derived from existing theory. Hypothesis dependent variable: dependent variable more variables. Explanatory research explains cause and effect relationships . Hypothesis a statement of a definite relationship between two or. Independent variable presumed to cause or effect the. Correlation when 2 variables occur more frequently than can be. Population entire group of interests to the researcher. Statistics use a sample portion of the population included in study. Random sample every member of the population had an equal. Representative sample has all of the same or main characteristics. Adjusted sample sample altered to be made representative.
