SOCI 2150Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Qualitative Property, Nomothetic
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What is research: activities undertaken to advance knowledge, truth(s), and social development etc. Using systematic, agreed-upon rules and tools of knowledge development. Based on acceptance that researchers can study social groups and imagine social changed without being about to view (cid:1684)reality(cid:1685) directly, or without having experienced that (cid:1688)reality(cid:1685) (ie. poverty) Assuming various possibilities of reality, understanding the broad range of possibilities for structuring research: discovering/creating knowledge about a topic, the process of discovering and gaining knew knowledge. Where we seek to exhaust the idiosyncratic causes of a particular condition or event (ie. what range of factors influenced your choice to come to trentu. Where we seek to identify a few causal factors that generally impact a class of conditions or events (ie. what key factors influence the choice of universities among high school students) Page 1 of 2: aims to find and explain patterns, regularity in social life (and to understand these patterns) using .
