SOAN 3070 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Animal Control Service, Deductive Reasoning, Participant Observation
9 Jan 2018
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Quantitative research: the surveys tend to be dry, there is also no way for example to know what else might be impacting the person and tend to have to make assumptions based on the survey responses provided. Asking questions and identifying goals: the questions someone asks indicate what is considered most important to them, the way we ask a question further determines what kind of answers one is to receive. Quantitative: research should focus on human, research should focus on theory lived reality. He argued that scientific methods could be adapted to the social sciences. This notion was developed through his ideal of (cid:498)positivism(cid:499) Positivism attributes: adherence to a realist perspective, trust in casual knowledge, reliance on deductive reasoning. Realist perspective assumes that reality is out there and waiting to be discovered. Thus, the objective of social sciences is to uncover the laws of human behavior what.
