Emrical vs Theoretical Flashcards
What is empirical evidence?
Based on evidence in the real world
What is theoretical evidence?
Based on theoretical ideas, human social behaviour based on this
What is Ontology?
How we view society
What is epistemology?
What knowledge we use to investigate society
What is methodology?
What s thsi k is acceptable data collection
What’s quantitative data?
Used by positivist
numerical data and gets a large wuNtity
discovering patterns and trends
in socials survays, structured interviews, lab, feild, content analysis and official statistic
What is qualitative data?
Non number is and have to develop a number of in-depth methods
get in versthean
micro small group
Participant observations covert and overt
Non participant
Unstructeted interview
expressive documents
What is the social action theory!
Micro aproach
bribes society doseny have an existence independants of individuals
Believes society ended up the way it was due to the way we interact with eachother and it’s constantly being created and non crated
Every human creates own interpretation of society and everyday we are modifying and developing how we view the words
What sociologist believes the social action theory?
Interprativists
What is the structural view of society?
Macro aproach
Society’s made up of structure determine how humans behave
Thea have been around since we were born and when we will die
Structured aren’t dependant on particular individuals and have an feeling of own so make own norms and values creating a socist aproach
What sociologist suppose the structural theory?
Positivists
What is versthean?
Collecting indebth meaningful data, in which empathy’s shown
pulling yourself in the participants head
ability to understand lives of p’s
So therefore observe the ethnography made by interprativists as they have high versthean
