Soc 255 ch.1 Flashcards
Exploratory research
Groundbreaking research on a relatively unstudied topic or in a new area
Qualitative data analysis
Analysis that results in the interpretation of action r representation of meanings in the researchers own words
Descriptive research
Designed to describe groups, activities, situations or events
Quantitative data analysis
Analysis based on the statistical summary of data
Explanatory research
Research designed to explain why subjects vary in one way or another
Evaluation research
Research designed to assess the impacts of programs policies or legal changes
Unit of analysis
A unit about what information is collected
Positivist
a view that human knowledge must be based on what can be perceived.
Post positivist
A view that knowledge is not based on irrefutable observable grounds, that it is always somewhat speculative but that science can provide relatively solid grounds for that speculation
Authorities
Socially defined sources of knowledge
Personal inquiry
Inquiry that employs the senses evidence
Scientific method
A way of conditioning empirical research following rules that specify objectivity, logic and communication among community of knowledge seekers and the connections between research And theory
Intersubjectivity
Agreements about reality that result from comparing the observations of more than one observer
Objectivity
The ability to see the world as it really is
Theory
An explanation about how and why something is as it is
