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20 Cards in this Set
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Idiographic |
Explain a SINGLE unique situation |
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Nomothetic |
Explaining a class of situations, more than one |
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Inductive |
Moving from particular to general. Ex. Looking at one nurse to the whole country of nurses |
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Deductive |
Moving from general to specific |
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Determinism |
The thought that humans don't have control over their lives |
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Agency |
Capable of voluntary action to environment |
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Quantitative |
Expressed in numbers |
Quantity |
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Qualitative |
Expressed in words, pictures |
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Operationalize |
Specifying the exact operations involved in measuring a variable. Ex. Stealing and family income. |
Variable |
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Inductive reasoning |
Uses specific premises to build a conclusion. Ex. Harold is a grandfather. Harold is bald. Therefore all grandfather's are bald. |
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Deductive reasoning |
General to specific. Ex. Since ALL humans are mortal, and I am a human then I am mortal. |
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Observation |
Looking at the world and making measurements of what is seen |
Seeing |
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Early positivism |
Comte's view that science would replace religion by basing knowledge on observation |
Atheist |
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Symbolic interactionism |
Interactions revolve around individuals reaching understanding through language. |
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Ethnomethodology |
Trying to make sense of life |
What is the meaning of life? |
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Structural functionalism |
An organization can be viewed as an organism, a social system is made up of parts, each of which contributes to the function as a whole |
A machine |
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Critical race theory |
The relationship between race and laws. Ex. White supremacy and laws that benefit them. |
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Pre modern |
Either is or isnt |
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Modern view |
Fluid, that dandilion might be a weed or a pretty flower to others |
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Post modern |
Creating own reality, one cannot experience anything like another. |
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