SOCIOL 2Z03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Social Reality, Grounded Theory, Antipositivism
3 Nov 2017
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Introduction: determining what questions to ask in social research, assessing social theory, gathering info to create theory, understanding social problems, exploring personal experience. Theory of relative deprivation: people consider themselves disadvantaged in some ways but not absolutely. They only do if they do worse than the social group to which they aspire. Deductive and inductive approaches: deductive: starts with theory and uses hypothesis testing to confirm or reject the statement. Inductive: starts with collecting data then moves to generalization and forming a theory: data has primacy over theory, grounded theory: advocates theory creation in continuous interaction between generalizing data and creating theoretical statements. Sometimes only leads to empirical generalizations rather than an actual theory. Interpretivist epistemology: social world is different from natural world, understand human behavior and meanings that people attach to their actions, understand social world from perspective of people they study, different from natural sciences, ex.
