SOCIOL 2Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nonprobability Sampling, Construct Validity, Internal Validity
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Basic concepts: september 11: theory, purpose of research, middle range theories, grand theories, hypotheses: specific statements about how variables will relate to one another in a research study. Concerns with end results, are they studying what they intended to measure, are the valid: types of validity: each can have an impact on the overall type of study. Many argue the above measures are more applicable to quantitative than qualitative work: evaluating qualitative research, lincoln and guba maintain: qualitative work should be judged by different standards, trustworthiness includes: evaluate quantitative research that is generated. Transferability (external validity) almost the same as generalization. General orientations: quantitative and qualitative research: research divide: table 1. 1. Inductive: generation of theory: qualitative research exhibits features associated with the natural science model, hypothesis and theory testing, realism: middle way between constructivist and objectivist debate, symbolic interactionalism: 3 schools of though, chicago school.