Sociology 1021E Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Inductive Reasoning, Verstehen, Statistical Hypothesis Testing
24 May 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Concreate experience: obtained by seeing, touching, tasting, smelling, or hearing. Percepts: the smallest bits of concreate experience. Abstract experience: the imaginary world of the mind. Concepts: abstract terms used to organize concrete experience. Propositions: ideas that result from finding the relationship between concepts. Sample: the part of the population of research interest that is selected for analysis. Population: the entire group about which the researcher wants to generalize. Objectivity: assessed by the degree of consistency between the observations of independent observers. Positivists: assume that social realities are objective and are best studied through quantitative research methods. Interpretivists: assume that social realities are subjectively constructed and are best studied through qualitative research methods. Deductive reasoning: begins with general ideas and proceeds to test their validity on specific cases. Inductive reasoning: begins with concrete cases and proceeds to identify general patterns and themes. It begins with a concreate experience that sparks and interest.
