POLS 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Scholasticism, Class Conflict, Atomism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1150
• Professor: c

Document Summary

The empirical (positivist) approach concerned with the study of facts, observable data as in the natural sciences systematizing: inputs and output. Qualitative: method of study through observation, interviews, documented evidence. Must be able to measure variables numerically in order to sow relationship, correlations and their significance through mathematical formulae: multivariate analysis. Empirical method on voting behaviour: women will look more at social policy more than mean theory political outcomes depend on individual preferences proposition: voting behaviour differs according to individual attributes hypothesis (es) Independent variables operationalize: which method? qualitative method. Statistical analysis: numerically measurable variables, mathematical formulate to prove relationship (correlation, significance) Behaviouralism and the behavioural revolution after ww11 after ww11 young men missed years of education and had to be reintegrated into society. Uses quantitative methods exclusively to understand political behaviour of individuals. Latently normative - seems value free but is not.