SOAN 2120 Lecture : SOAN Lecture Note
20 Jan 2012
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Three main activities in social research: tentative explanation (theory, observing (experiment/ data collection, testing rival views against data (examination of data) Outbreak in area closest to the pump, two locations outside of the area (work house and brewery, that had no deaths as they did not use the same water) Her and her daughter drank that water and ended up dying. y snow was making observations. Curiosity - is the motivating forces behind scientific inquiry- did. Where do research ideas s come from? y theory y. Life experience y other sources y personal interests and curiosity y casual observation y practical problems or questions y vague and fleeting thoughts y reading reports of other s observations. A secondary sources is written by someone who did not participate in the research or observations being discussed. You have to do lots of reading for research. Build theories based on observing aspects of social life and then seeking to discover patterns.
