SOC224 Lecture Notes - Grounded Theory, Inductive Reasoning, Blind Experiment
25 Apr 2013
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Jan 24 research: to evaluate data, we need to see where it is from and assess its validity, when we see things presented to us, we shouldn"t take things at face value. We should do our own research on the issue. Methodology: means through which to answer research questions, research questions dictate the methodlogy. How battle bad science: critically appraisal of data (phd defence, question the authority and data. Inductive reasoning is where theory comes out of the data. It is theory building: deductive reasoning is where you start out with a theory and set out to prove it. It is theory tested, rather than theory building. You cant wait for the results to come to you: when you do ethnography, you ahve to seek out these pahses and sites, there are a number of ways to get access to these phases.
