CCJ 4700 Exam 1 Questions and
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• 2 sources of agreement reality - Answer-Tradition and Authority
• Errors in personal inquiry and their solutions - Answer-Inaccurate observation
(sol: scientific obs), overgeneralization (sol: high value of large samples and replication -
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specific area of social concern. If you want to study, test, or develop substantive theory,
you can examine cases within the same substantive area. For example, you could
observe several different gangs, but not attempt to say something about delinquency in
general. It could be thought of as shared theories among experts in a certain subfield.
- Formal theory is developed for a broad conceptual area in general theory. If you want
to study, test, or develop general theory, you can compare cases within the same formal
area. For example, to study crime, you could examine various forms of crime (e.g.,
property, violent, white collar, drugs) without paying too much attention to the details of
each form.
• Grounded theory - Answer✔✔-A type of inductive theory that is based on (grounded
in) field observation. The researcher makes observations in natural settings, then
formulates a tentative theory that explains those observations.
• Hypothesis - definition - Answer✔✔-An explanation about the nature of things
derived from a theory. It's a statement of something that will be observed in the real
world if the theory is correct.
• 3 conditions that must be met in order for a statement to be considered a hypothesis -
Answer✔✔-Hypotheses have three parts:
1. Expectation about reality
2. Based on a theory
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