POLI 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ideal Type, Testability, Dependent And Independent Variables
21 Feb 2018
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Chapter 3 theory oriented research and the issue of causality. Basic and applied research: applied research: research directed at finding answers to specific problems, with immediate practical use. Indicates how things are but does not explain why they are that way: used by governments, businesses, marketing agencies, hospitals ect. , basic research: aims to broaden our understanding of political life. From this they develop multiple explanations and theories. Theory: relationships between concepts: theory: identifies general pattern of behaviours from predictions relevant hypotheses. An intergraded set of explanation of the political and social worlds: hypothesis: statements of the relationship between concepts or proposed explanation for an observable phenomenon. Is testable: proposition: if the hypothesis is true, the following predictions subject is either true or false. Can either be concrete or abstract definitions: for ex: equality is a very complex idea on how they define it.
