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27 Cards in this Set
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Aggregates
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Collections of many individuals, cases or other units
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Concepts
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Ideas expressed with symbols or words
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Concept clusters
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Groups of concepts that mutually re-enforce each other.
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Classification
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Partway between a single, simple concept and a theory.
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Assumptions
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Statements about the nature of things that are not observable or testable.
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Relationships
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How concepts relate to each other.
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Deductive
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Begin with an abstract approach then find specific evidence.
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Inductive
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Begin with details and move toward abstract generalizations.
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Empirical Generalizations
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- least abstract
- simple statement about a pattern |
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Middle Range Theory
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- slightly more abstract
- focuses on a topic area - used to guide empirical theory |
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Theoretical Frameworks
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- more abstract
- eg. theories of the family. |
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Micro Level Theory
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Deals with small slices of time, space or numbers of people.
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Meso Level Theory
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Links macro and micro levels.
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Macro Level Theory
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Operation of larger aggregates, such as social institutions, entire cultural systems and whole societies.
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Theoretical Explanation
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Why something occurs and how concepts are connected.
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Ordinary Explanation
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Make something clear.
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Prediction
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A statement that something will occur.
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Temporal Order
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Cause must come before effect.
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Association
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2 things occur together in a patterned way or appear to act together.
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Eliminating Alternatives
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Researcher interested in causality needs to show that effect is due to the causal variable (no spuriousness).
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Positive Relationship
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Higher value on the causal variable goes with a higher value on the effect variable.
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Negative Relationship
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Higher value on the causal variable goes with a lower value on the effect variable.
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Paradigm
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Integrated set of assumptions, beliefs, models of doing research, and techniques for gathering and analyzing data.
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Replication
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Researches or other repeat the basics of a study and get identical or similar findings.
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Positivist Approach
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Social reality is made up of objective facts that value-free researchers can precisely measure.
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Interpretive Approach
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Human social life is based more on how people go about constructing social reality.
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Idiographic
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Specific description and refers to explaining an aspect of the social world by offering a highly detailed picture or description of a specific social setting, process, or type of relationship.
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