SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Grounded Theory, Unstructured Interview, Laud Humphreys

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Adolphine Y.Aggor- Boateng

Document Summary

Descriptive and explanatory studies: descriptive studies describe social reality or provide facts about some group, practice, or event, explanatory studies try to explain relationships and to provide information on why certain events do or do not occur. In the deductive approach, the researcher begins with a theory and uses research to test the theory. In the inductive approach, the researcher collects data and then generates theories from the analysis of those data. The quantitative research model: select and define the research problem, review previous research, formulate the hypothesis (if applicable), develop the research design, collect and analyze the data. Variables: scientists make no claims to eternal truths, rather they present hypotheses tentative statements of the relationship between two or more concepts or variables. A variable: any concept with measurable traits or characteristics that vary from one person, time, situation, or society to another.