SOCIOL 2Z03 Chapter Notes - Chapter ch 4: Nomothetic
21 Dec 2016
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Chapter 4 notes: research design & logic of causation: scienti c inquiry comes down to making & interpreting observations, research design is about planning, two major tasks in research design, 1. Specify what you want to nd out: 2. Figure out the best way to do it: three purposes of research, 1. Description: descriptive studies are meant to describe observations e. g. the canadian census, scienti c descriptions are typically more accurate & precise than causal ones, most qualitative studies are descriptive, answer questions of what, when, where & how, 3. The variables must be correlated the variables must be observed to be related: when there"s a change in one, there"s a change in the other, 2. The cause takes place before the e ect: we can"t say that a causal relationship exists unless the cause occurs before the e ect. In research, sometimes its unclear which order variables occur in: 3.
