SOCPSY 2K03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Face Validity, Factor Analysis, Concurrent Validity
3 Mar 2018
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Quantitative research is based on positivism, which advocates views that. Social sciences may use the procedures of natural sciences in studying the human world. Social reality is objectively given - exists outside of our will and perceptions - and can therefore be studied. Proposes a top-down model of doing social research. Concept: an idea or mental representation of something; a building block of theory represented in our research questions. Nominal definition: describes the concepts in words and explains what the concept means and what"s included in it. Operational definition: how the concepts will be measured or who it"ll actually be reflected in a question. In instances where the researcher considers the causal relationship between concepts, the concept may be seen as the cause (independent variable) or as an effect (dependent variable) that needs to be explained. Measuring concepts is important in quantitative research in order to see how they operate in social reality.
