COM 470 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: The Foundations, Qualitative Property, Nomothetic
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The foundations of social science: the foundations of social science are logic and observation, we must be able to observe it, but it also needs to be logical so that we can see the relationship between variables occurring. Yes, in our culture: aggregates, not individuals, the collective actions and situations of many individuals. Consistency of birth rates irrespective of reasoning for becoming pregnant people have children for many different reasons. Through attributes: we study the relationship between those variables, attributes characteristics or qualities that describe and object, the attributes describe the variable. E. g. (variable: age - attribute: young middle aged, old), (variable: gender- attribute: female, male), (variable: occupation - attribute: plumber, lawyer: gender social construct, sex biological difference, both can have the same attributes. Idiographic (qualitative) an approach to explanation in which we seek to exhaust the idiosyncratic causes of a particular condition of event: we want to understand everything can could have caused it.
