CC233 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Antipositivism, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Fallacy
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From very broad to specific of how you can answer it. Brainstorming (reasons, purposes, objectives what you want to accomplish) social issue. When we fail to define the unity of analysis, then we will commit. Forming a research, moving from general to specific. Research questions: be clear/ specific, be researchable, have specific evaluation criteria (lit review) Information based on others research: connect with established theory/ research (deductive, linking your data back to theory, have potential to make contribution to knowledge, finding things that other people haven"t discovered. Explanatory: typical social research question, independent variable: mulitculiraism, dependent variable: racism, helps you to stay focused. Quantitative: specific, preplanned eq (linear) followed step by step, testing hypothesis/ theory (deductive, turing information into numbers. Quantitative: very flexible, doesn"t follow the steps, general, emergent rq (non-linear, back and forth, theory building, data driven (grounded theory) Testing causal relationships (explanatory: hypothesis testing (null vs alternative)
