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Sociology
How can we say the research is scientific research?
- transparent procedures
- hypothesis or clear idea to start from
- unpredictable outcome
- ethically correct (anonymity for participants)
Sociology
Pros and Cons Surveys
Pros:
- more information
- population can be studied
- fixed choices make it easy to compare
Cons:
- less detailed
- fixed choices can be limiting
Sociology
What are Quantitative Methods?
- quantity of information, more data and information rather than the context of it
- e.g., surveys
Sociology
What is deductive research?
hypothesis - analysing data - hypothesis supported or not
- from general to specific
- usually more connected to quantitative methods
Sociology
Pros and Cons Documentary Research
Pros:
- getting a bigger picture
- using different sources
- all the information is already there
Con:
- can be unreliable, because subjective stories can be involved
Sociology
Maximilian Weber
- how individuals subjectively relate to each other
- subjectivity rather than objectivity
- understanding rather than measuring
Sociology
Goal of Harriet Martineau
focus on institutions
Sociology
Goal of Auguste Comte
- uncovering universal laws of human society
- predict human destiny
Sociology
What is ontology?
what we study (object)
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Goal of Abu Zaid Abdal Rahmen Ibn Khaldun
understanding society through systematic science
Sociology
What is epistemology?
theory of knowledge
- how we know things
- has limitations
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What is specific about the subject of social sciences, comparing to the subjects of natural sciences?
- Natural sciences have natural laws, which can be measured objectively
- Social science studies society which is constructed by humans and ever changing (subjective)
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