POLS 3180 Lecture Notes - Grounded Theory
1 Dec 2013
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Pols 3180 october 2 2013 research methods i. Causation and causal models overall just means that reading data must be taken into account in a correct manner. Cause precedes effects: absence of reverse causality (connection: there is a co variation between democratic countries being members of more international organizations, can not be sure that more international organizations lead to democracy. Absence of outliers: especially in probabilistic causation and not deterministic causation: pointing out that there are outliers does not disprove that a causation relationship exists, particular cases: outliers. Effect observable in majority cases: likelihood an event will take place. Deduction: theory go into real world see if the theoretical expectations hold. Without theory it is impossible to observe and make out reality among us. If we do not know what to look for we cannot just observe. Rather than research being the testing of theory, theory is testing of research: takes the conventionalist critique seriously.
