SSCI 2900U Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: American Sociological Review, Inductive Reasoning, Deductive Reasoning
19 May 2016
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Multiple choice: which is the best description of methodology? a. b. c. d. the science of knowing the science of finding out the discovery of reality through agreement the discovery of reality through personal experience. Ref: p. 7: which view recognizes that scientists are human and, as such, have personal orientations that affect what they observe and how they explain it, postmodern, premodern, modern, ultramodern. Ref: p. 13: professor rodgers found that the average level of happiness reported by people under 65 years of age declined from 1957 to 1970. For the same group, the average level of happiness increased slightly from 1971 to 1978. Rodgers also found that the average level of happiness reported by people age 65 and older increased from 1957 to 1978. What is the variable in this study: aged 65 and older b, age, age 65. In an attempt to research people"s level of happiness, professor rodgers studied three people aged 65 or older.
