POLS 3180 Study Guide - Final Guide: Logical Positivism, Empiricism, Spurious Relationship

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2 sets of questions, one in each set 5 questions: do you think the values of researchers affect the goals of their research studies ontologically and epistemologically, ontology, epistemology. Can we know it entirely or partly: methodology, researchers values influence their research most basic level: How do we obtain knowledge? choice of research. Science can study social reality relatively unproblematically and arrive at objective conclusions interaction with it: naturalism. There is a world independent of our. The social world is like the natural world. It is governed by patterns or laws that reflect causal relationships: there is a fundamental distinction between facts and, empiricism. Observation (sight, taste, hearing, smell, values touch) is the source of all knowledge. Individual observations general rule if we consistently see that b follows a, we can conclude there is a causal relationship between a and b: induction c.

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