SOC221H5- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 36 pages long!)
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Arguments are claims that research make based on evidence. Whether the evidence is correctly collected and analyzed. Empirical social reality that we are interested in. The information that we are supposed to accept as true. Good data are collected and analyzed in the research methods. Explain those facts, giving people a deeper understanding of the meaning to give us the understanding and explanation of the facts. Fit between the explanations that we have and the evidence that is based on. Philosophical and theoretical underpinning of what we do. Usefulness of these methods and into knowledge production. Techniques that have been produced from decades as they are the most useful. Using a method in order to produce knowledge. Science is not philosophy, religious, traditional and cultural how to know ourselves but not scientific ways of knowing. They are using some elements of scientific method to understand the social world.
