SY280- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 34 pages long!)

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60 marks, worth 30% of your final grade: 27 multiple choice (mostly drawn from the textbook) 5 fill in the blank - no word bank! (mostly from lecture) 10 marks for 3 short answer questions (hint: first week of class, second week, and the last week or so before exam) 5 marks for one short essay question (hint: from lecture weeks 2/3) 8 marks essay question (hint: week 1 lecture) Empiricism: philosophical approach to theorizing, only knowledge gained through sensory experience is acceptable, not intuition, revelation, etc. Tenets of positivism: scientific approach to social phenomena. i. e. deductive, quantitative, research = testing theories -> develops laws of social science, observation not influenced by pre-existing theories. Positivism under attack: sometimes used as pejorative term = crude & superficial data collection, not very thoughtful, criticized by feminist researchers, marxists, interpretivists and others i. e. objective, value-neutral research on women.