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Lecture 1: Research strategies and ethicsContent
- Research strategies
- Criteria for social research
- Research designs
- Research ethics
Qualitative and quantitative research differ in terms of:
- General orientation to social research
- Epistemological foundations
- Ontological basis
Deductive and inductive theory
- Deductive: theory > data. Explicit hypothesis to be confirmed or rejected. Quantitative
- Inductive: data > theory. Generalizable inferences from observations. Qualitative
The research wheel
Epistemological considerations
- What is considered acceptable knowledge? Understanding or theory?
- Can the social world be studied scientifically?
- Is it appropriate to apply the methods of the natural sciences to social science research?
- Positivist and interpretivist epistemologies
Ontological considerations
- Social ontology: the nature of social entities
- What kind of objects exist in the social world?
- Do social entities exist independently of our perceptions of them?
- Is social reality external to social actors or constructed by them?
Quantitative research
- Measurement of social variables
- Common research designs: surveys and experiments
- Numerical and statistical data
- Deductive theory testing
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