POLSCI 2NN3- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 41 pages long!)

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 2NN3
• Professor: Todd Alway

Document Summary

This course focuses on the mechanics of primary research: acquire primary data, analyze primary data. Come up with a research topic, anything in politics that you"re interesting in. What have the experts had to say about your research topic. Critically analyze the expert literature (what has it done well, what has it done poorly?) Come up with a question via the literature review. Research di erent methods on how to get primary data. Answering these questions requires delving into larger philosophical questions: A) there is an objective world out there that is what it is regardless of how we perceive it. It is stitched together and reproduced by social beliefs and social acts that are capable of changing in unexpected ways. There are fundamentally different answers to the ontological, epistemological, and methodological questions. The answers lead to different types of political science.