SOCIOL 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Deductive Reasoning, Grounded Theory
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Deduction is big to small (general to specific theory) Inductive is small to big (specific to general) Grounded theory (put bias aside to prevent muddying of results) I do not know what my theory is and im going to find out. Deductive: theoretical statement (isolation and suicide related) (isolation causing suicide) Use theory to say if that is true then this is what we should see in the data. A -> b (a = theory, b = empirical statement, outcome or specific observation we will see) B = specific testable outcome (was false) If b was true then a is more credible/believable (not true, not proven) Multiple tests for b can give a even more credibility. Situation 1 and 2 weak unlike situation 3 (multiple tests in various locations) (fr. Situation 4: new topics such as religion and marriage. B1 b2 b3 (different studies instead of situation 3 same topic studied over and over)
