SOC221H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Nomothetic, Antipositivism, Structural Functionalism
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Theories: limited in scope and can be directly tested, allows for further theorizing, ex: durkheim"s theory of suicide it is specific enough to test, but open. Grand theories o general and abstract cannot be directly tested enough to allow for others to add to it. Influence: a researchers awareness of how their values effect the research, some researchers take sides", politics can influence whose research gets funded, who gets access to. Causation the research (are there any string attached), and what findings are. Reliability: the results remain the same each time; consistently get the same. Research: the extreme/unique case: looks at the unusual to help explain the usual, the revelatory case: examines context never looked at before. Interpretivist what does action mean tot people; often constructionist. Social action is not fixed; naturalistic perspective during research, do not mess with the social world.
