Sociology 2206A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Antipositivism, Operationalization, Dependent And Independent Variables
19 Apr 2016
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A journalist is anyone who can say i"m there, but you"re not, so let me tell you about it . Science is communication of how the world works". A scientist is anyone who can say i understand something about the world; let me explain it to you . A systematic, organized series of steps that ensures maximum objectivity and consistency in researching a problem (the core of this course!) Theory hypotheses observations empirical generalizations . Ways of naming, ways of conceptually ordering our sense of the world. They are tools with which we decide what it is that we experience, why something is the way it is, and how it is that we might act or react to it (pfohl, 1985:9) A systematic set of interrelated statements intended to explain some aspect of social life. State a probability, chance, or tendency, not an absolute casual relationship: direction of influence (time order: what comes first).
