SOCI 1001H Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Redone, Participant Observation, Operationalization
24 Jan 2017
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Scientific-based inquiry is the most common approach in sociology by researchers. They work largely in the field of positivism. Theory plays a large role in doing social research. Starts with a social problem, event, or situation of which you are asking a question of. Theory: general or abstract assumption turned into a hypothesis. Hypothesis: a statement of a relationship between two or more concepts or variables. H(cid:455)pothesis is a (cid:373)ore spe(cid:272)ifi(cid:272) state(cid:373)e(cid:374)t easier to test i(cid:374) the (cid:858)real (cid:449)orld(cid:859) tha(cid:374) a theory is, and is a statement of what you expect to observe in the empirical world (like a prediction) Is composed of 2 concepts that are somehow related and their relation varies. Hypotheses can also be defined as unverified predictions. Hypotheses speak in tendencies, as there are always exceptions. In order to reach the next stage, we must go through conceptualization. Is defining what you mean by the concepts (be more specific: ex.
