SOC-1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Numerical Analysis, Francis Bacon, Deductive Reasoning
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Participant observation: a sociological research technique in which the researcher becomes simultaneously both participants in and observer of that which she or he studied. Involved several steps in a research process including observation, hypothesis, testing, analysis of data and drawing conclusions. They create a specific research question about a focused point that based on a more general or universal principle inductive reasoning. Reverses this logic: that it arrives at general conclusions from specific observations developing a research question. Replication study: research that is repeated exactly, but on a different group of people or in a different time or place creating a research design. Research design the overall logic and strategy underlying a research project quantitative versus qualitative research. Qualitative research less structured then quantitative: focuses on a central research question hypothesis, a prediction or a hunch, a tentative assumption. Data: can be qualitative or quantitative.
