POLSCI 2NN3 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Guide: The Technique, Cluster Sampling, Simple Random Sample

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 2NN3
• Professor: Todd Alway

Document Summary

When talking about social reality we talk about: gender, are they products of society, influx or it is what it is. What can we know about the world: separate from whether or not we know that it exists. Can we see the world as it truly is: hard to be objective when you"re effected by it. This will be effected by ontology and epistemology: there are fundamentally diff answers to the ontological, epistemological, and methodological questions, the answers lead to different types of pol sci. What is positivism: naturalism, ontology: the social world is analogous to the natural world, will look at the natural sciences (nat sci) and their research, epistemology: we can know the social world as it truly is. The way the natural world looks can be rep. in social world. Assume social world is natural, ordered, and predicable as in natural world. Does not have to be bias by our social structures (class, gender, etc. )