SCS 2150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Discourse Analysis, Grounded Theory, Symbolic Interactionism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Social Sciences
• Course: SCS 2150
• Professor: ivan Katchanovski

Document Summary

Offer few direct indications of how to collect evidence to test them. Middle range theories are limited in scope and are tested directly by gathering empirical evidence. Deductive method: starts by coming up with a theory that seeks to explain a particular phenomenon, then deduces a speci c hypothesis from it (tested with empirical data) Inductive approach is an approach that holds the theory as the outcome of research. Researcher begins by gathering relevant data to the phenomenon being investigated. Data is gathered to come up with the information required to construct a theory social products, whose meaning is constructed in and through social interaction (gender) Interpretivism says social scientists should grasp the subjective meanings of people"s. Grounded theory is the practice of deriving theories from qualitative data. Empirical assumptions are notions of what can be known and how knowledge is acquired. Positivism af rms the importance of following the natural sciences.