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16 Cards in this Set
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Authorities
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Among the most common sources of knowledge for most of us. They are socially defined sources of knowledge
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Personal Inquiry
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Inquiry that employs the senses evidence for arriving at knowledge
Problems: can lead to misleading even false conclusions through: perceiving selectively overgeneralizing suffering from premature closure |
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Scientific Method
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a way of conducting empirical research following rules that specify objectivity, logic, and communication among a community of knowledge seekers and the connection between research and theory
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Positivist View of Science
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A view that human knowledge must be based on what can be perceived
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Post-Positivist View of Science
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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
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Objectivity
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The ability to see the world as it really is
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Intersubjectivity
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agreements about reality that result from comparing the observations of more than one observer
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Theory
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An explanation about how and why something is as it is
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Basic Research
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Research designed to add to our fundamental understanding and knowledge of the social world regardless of practical or immediate implications
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Applied Research
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Research intended to be useful in the immediate future and to suggest action or increase effectiveness in some area
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Exploratory Research
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Groundbreaking research on a relatively unstudied topic or in a new area
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Qualitative Data Analysis
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Analysis that results in the interpretation of action or representation of meanings in the researcher's own words
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Descriptive Study
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Research designed to describe groups, activities, situations, or events
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Quantitative Data Analysis
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Analysis based on the statistical summary of data
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Explanatory Research
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research designed to explain why subjects vary in one way or another
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Evaluation Research
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Research designed to assess the impacts of programs policies or legal changes
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