PSCI 2701 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Determinism, Insite, Supervised Injection Site

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSCI 2701
• Professor: Vandna Bhatia

Document Summary

Elements of an argument: a statement or proposition; a reason or other evidence to support the proposition; a conclusion. Elements of research report: a research question or hypothesis; a literature review, a research design, and a statement and discussion of findings; a conclusion/answer to the question. Positivist research: arguments based on causation; scientific explanation rest on the idea that events and conditions have causes. Determinism: events or behaviours are determined or caused to happen by other factors. Critiques complexity of social phenomena, human indeterminacy. Instead, in social sciences, use probability or a statement about the likelihood of occurrence. The broad question or topic > the researchable" question > the conclusions and how they illuminate the broad question or topic. Observation: negative impact of social media on political discourse; there are more male professors than female. News report: survey finds growing disconnect between canadians and nature; pot smoking to be allowed on ubc.