SOC221H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Intuit, A.D. Vision, Deductive Reasoning
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Central research method for a lot of fields like psychology + poli-sci. E(cid:454)pla(cid:374)ato(cid:396)(cid:455): that"s (cid:373)aki(cid:374)g thi(cid:374)gs that look u(cid:374)i(cid:374)te(cid:396)p(cid:396)eta(cid:271)le/(cid:449)ei(cid:396)d = less fo(cid:396)eig(cid:374)/u(cid:374)usual + more interpretable. Start with abstract knowledge try to see how those play out in a concrete level. Field research starts with ocncerete observations + make abstract principles through patterns. Collect data in order to generate theory. Deductive theory testing: abstract knowledge (not much known) Start with observations to generate new theoretical concepts. Participation observation: when you are doing ethnography: also participating in that activity: participating along with other ppl. Idea that naturally occurring social life that can be studied in social setting. Superior form of data collection to see social life that would happening as it would naturally would. Instead of surveys: what you are getting are their accounts of what they think. + do: people sometimes give you info that they think you want to hear.
