SA 255 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Logical Positivism, Putto, Numerical Analysis

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 255
• Professor: Samantha May

Document Summary

Positionist: scienti c study of social world; world exists regardless of human interpretation; quantitative research method! Interpretivist: understanding human motivation in order to understand human actions; world exists in human experience and meaning; qualitative research method! Qualitative: data represented through descriptive qualities (ex. interviews, words, observations)! Quantitative: data represented through numbers (ex. surveys, charts)! Paradigm: ways of seeing things; can dictate the type of research done, the method used, the interpretation of data, etc. Epistemology: theories of knowledge regarding diff. status of knowledge claims and how to judge them! Methodology: a set/system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a discipline! Falsi cation: when theory doesn"t produce same/similar outcome when applied to new data! Emancipatory goals: wanting to give empowerment for the oppressed! De nition #1: to extend knowledge about some parts of social life: tests existing theories! Interpretivist: can only acct. for human behaviour if we understand ppl"s ! motivations: ppl-based, qualitative research!