SOCI 211 Lecture Notes - Qualitative Property, Demagogue, Social Theory
25 May 2013
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Inductive ( hypothesis generating): go from specific to general. Go from the little things then reaching a conclusion. A lot who to qualitative research adopt this approach. Deductive ( hypothesis testing): go from general to specific. Look at the theory collect your evidence then going back to the theory again. Mary waters in her older book ethnic options. Argument that in the us the 2nd and 3rd and 4th generation immigrants become fully assimilated in us culture. Mary says this mainstream understanding makes her uncomfortable and shes suspicious and doesn"t think that argument holds. Goes out to test that statement and does interviews. Quantitative versus qualitative: theres some communication between them but theres differences quantitative data collection produces hard data numerical data. Qualitative data collection gives soft data like images, documents, observations advantage of quantitative is you can summarize your findings in the form of tables and charts etc. in qualitative your data will be more thick descriptions.
