SOCI 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Nomothetic, Natural Science
13 Oct 2017
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Quantitative: theory development and testing, deductive, researchers meaning, same conclusion, objective reality (start with observation) Natural science model, positivist and realist, numbers, emphasis on cause and effects, objectivity and detachment, deductive, nomothetic analysis. Qualitative: human lived reality, inductive, participants meaning, highly complex, agreed upon experiences (hypothesis tested through observation) Human centered, phenomenological and constructionist, words, emphasis on processes, closeness to research participants to generate understanding, inductive, idiographic case study analysis. Research ethics: ethics: norms or rules of behaviour based on ideas of what is right and wrong (acceptable and unacceptable, e. x. Bio medical experiments performed on prisoners by nazis, milgram"s obedience to authority (trauma and forcing), humphreys tea rom (doesn"t say intentions) The need for ethics review: tri council policy statement, conducted experiments w humans must submit research plans to universities research plans, must be approved for grant.
