SO 202 Lecture Notes - David Candy, Working Hypothesis
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Describe, understand, improve, or influence the social world. Can provide important elements in the real world. Perspective or template a researcher uses to organize how she views the world. Provides a guide for explaining any regulatory she observes in the data. Direct our attention to certain events or things, suggests a framework by which we can understand what we observe. Developed and is the outcome of data and analysis. Theories that are established are studied to see what role they play. Three levels of abstraction in theorizing according to robert k. merton. Provide us with a framework to understand the world. Type of universal truth, maintain assumptions to show relationships between groups of people. Outcome and not the starting point of the research process.
