POLI 2F30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Revolution, Dependent And Independent Variables, October Revolution
18 Sep 2015
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Psyc 2f30 lecture 2: facts and evidence, facts used to support a proposition or hypothesis. b. Is saudi arabia a democracy: the comparative method, systematic comparison of cases to test hypotheses. (ex. Unlike in science, theories then to accumulate over time. If our deduction about social revolution fails, we may generate a different hypothesis to ecplain why the country experienced social revolution: a deviant case is one that does not fit the pattern predicated by a given theory (ex. Saudi arabia and most gulf countries are not democracy): generating hypotheses: induction a. They accumulate rather than get replaced: different from other areas of inqury, how theories are used, generate hypotheses that can be used to support, refine or reject a theory, takes a long time. In social science we tend to talk about probabilities and tendencies rather than laws. There are often exceptions: types of evidence: qualitative, primary documents, constitutions, journalist accounts d.
