SCS 1150 Final: SCS notes

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Social Sciences
• Course: SCS 1150
• Professor: Ivan Katchanovski

Document Summary

Lipset"s theory of democracy: grand theories (paradigms): general and abstract, cannot be tested directly (eg. rational choice, structural functionalism) Deductive approach: to conduct social scienti c inquiry, begin with a theory or explanation for something, then go out into the world and test it, typically relies on quantitive research, typically employs research hypothesis. Research hypothesis: testable expectation about empirical reality that follows from a more general proposition (a theory, the level of economic development has a positive effect on democracy, americans express less support for labour unions than. Viii. quantitative and qualitative research: quantitative: uses numbers and stats in the collection and analysis of data, qualitative: uses words and other non-numeric symbols in the collection and analysis of data. Values: contributes to bias in research, choice of topic, formulation of research question, choice of method, formulation of research design and data collection methods, actual data collection, analysis of data.