SY101 Lecture 4: Lecture 4
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Can"t just happen to one person: employs a negativistic logic (continually looking for competing explanations, try to disprove findings. If findings can withstand this testing then we can have confidence that findings are accurate) Express findings in terms of probability and likelihood: quantitative (looking for order in chaos) vs qualitative (preserving the complexity of social life) Different logics which ask different questions, approach sociological research differently. More of an issue with quantitative research because you are giving people answers that might not match the way the person themselves would"ve answered: reliability. The more it can be repeated, the more reliable it is. More of an issue with qualitative research because it"s easier to repeat a survey answer rather than a personal question/ interview. Because there are no rewards for people who redo an experiment. There is pressure to publish in science and academics. Journals don"t want simple replications, they want new and exciting research.
