ECH3350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Thick Description, Scientific Method, Deductive Reasoning
1 Nov 2016
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Www. hrw. org (data centre), look under reports , good for writing methodology paper @ micro level. Don"t need peer reviewed sources for data. Ontology is the philosophical study of the nature of being or of the reality. How do we make sense of the world around us? using theories! * focus on theories that could be used to explain ontology realism: how states behave. Collection action dilemma: why people organize around a social situation. Tension between individual being to explain themselves in a particular context. Victims of given situations (history, social classes) Argueing whether you are someone that believe in the micro approaches. Trying to link structure and the individual. Macro, micro, and meso will all change depending on the phenomena. Ex: most would assume that the micro level is the individual, however, in realism the state would be considered the micro level. In a conflict, the state would not be considered a micro level.
