SOC150H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Operationalization, Natural Sciences And Engineering Research Council, Statistical Hypothesis Testing
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Identify an appropriate research method with which to examine our questions of interest research methods are the rules and procedures that social scientists use to approach a research question. Is it necessary that the rules of practice are standardized because this allows for rigorous and reproducible work. Inaccurate observations (solution: precise measurement: overgeneralization (solution: sampling, replicability, selective observation (solution: sampling, precise measurement) Conducting research: the process identify a problem review existing research literature. Formulate research questions: conceptualize and operationalize, record ndings select research method collect data/sampling, analyze data, discussion/re ection, develop conclusions. The research process: where (and how) you start the research process depends on the approach most appropriate for your research question. Link between theory and research test theory by research (deductive) - hypothesis testing, also traditional model of science construct theory from research (inductive) and then test it again: may be a combination of both. There"s no simple recipe for conducting social science research.
