PSCI 2701 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Psychology, Juvenile Delinquency, Abortion Clinic
27 Sep 2016
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Last week we talked about how we, as trained political scientists, can answer questions about the social and political world. Good research considers these choices as options that can be justified, given the question, its type, its context, etc. Recall the example we did last week, where we asked the question: Even when setting aside the logics and cognitive complications we discussed and pointed, there is a multitude of ways to try to answer that question. This is the literature review process: what do we know from the literature on that topic: the topic would have had to be researched first in relevant studies, the question had to be reformulated and specified first. What do we want to find out with the results: we would also have had to think about how to get the data necessary to answer the question convincingly, and how to put this data together.
