SOWK 3070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Research Question
31 Oct 2018
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Class 2 lectures notes: topics of this lectures are, 6 basic principles for research, research process overview, research objective, selecting problems -research objective, concepts and variables. Step 1: focus and narrow the research problem. Step 3: design and devise measure for variables. They are: logic or rationality theory, observation data. Three pillars of social work research: ethics. Theories are ideas about how things relate to each other. A theory is an idea about how something works, or what it is like to be something or what will happen if . Theory provides explanation and consists of three components: concepts, propositions or statements linking the concepts together, rules for connecting concepts with observable i. e. , measurement. An objective is a clear and specific statement to describe what we would like to achieve at the end of the study. Concepts are ideas, thoughts, or feelings of which we have a mental image. For example, depression is a concept, and/or gender is a concept.
