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Soc Research Ch2
Need to Know - Social Science Research Methods Ch2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What term marks a commitment to understand what can be observed through the use of the physical senses: touch,sight, hearing, smell, and taste. Its goal is to discover and explain relationships between things. | Science |
| What term refers the fact that science cannot find answers to questions involving preferences, values, or supernatural matters - that it deals only with empirical facts. | Limits of science |
| What is the theory that phenomena (events and behavior) are not random, but can be explained as effects that have causes. | Determinism |
| What is the term that means that something can be observed? | Empirical |
| What is a statement that can be confirmed or disproved using evidence gained through one's senses? | Fact |
| What is the term that means to suspend judgment until all the evidence has been scrutinized? | Skeptical |
| What is the term that means a deliberate search, carried out with care and forethought, as contrasted with the casual and largely passive perceptions of everyday life. | Systematic |
| What term means the more general, rather than the specific case? | Abstract |
| What term means complete explanations of a particular event - specific causes of a specific event? | Idiographic |
| What term means an understanding what a category of events have in common - the general cause of a general class of events? | Nomothetic |
| What is the term that means a deliberate search, carried out with care and forethought, as contrasted with the casual and largely passive perceptions of everyday life. | Systematic |
| What term means the more general, rather than the specific case? | Abstract |
| What term means complete explanations of a particular event - specific causes of a specific event? | Idiographic |
| What term means an understanding what a category of events have in common - the general cause of a general class of events? | Nomothetic |
| What term refers to the idea of neutrality wherein values and preferences are irrelevant? | Objectivity |
| What term means the agreement between observers about what is observed in realization that observations are contaminated by the way in which observers understand the nature of the world. | Intersubjectivity |
| What two commitments does intersubjectivity rely on? | Look for contrary evidence. Having others inspect your work. |
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