Topic 11: Research Methods Flashcards
For what reasons might we think something is true?
- Tradition (It has always been true)
- Authority (expert says so)
- Intuition (we feel it is true)
- Experience (it happened to me)
- Reasoning (I worked it out)
What is positivism?
The only authentic knowledge is that which is based on actual sense experience, and declares sensless and false everything else.
What is logical positivism?
A school of phiolosophy that combines positivism with empricism, the idea that obverservational knowledge is indespensable for world knowledge
Only two types of meaningful statemetns:
- Logical or mathematical statements (rationalism)
- Factual statements that can be validated
What are theories?
Made up of constructs, and two types of relationships between them:
Correlation & Causation.
Constracts are abstract idea sthat can be linked to observable information. Thoeries must be able to be falsified.
How do we catategorize studies & experiments?
- Experimental (control, treatment)
- Non-Experimental (no control or even treatment)
- Quasi-Experimental (natural forming groups or treatement)
What are daughertys principles for Grounded Theory Building
- Capture inherent complexity of social life
- Researchers must interact deeply in the data
- Grounded theory interwines research task
- Grounded theory building stands on it’s own merits
What are some issues in organizational behavior research?
- Multiple causation
- Multiple levels of analysis
- Multiple times
Show the theory building and testing process.
