Introduction: Before joining my Masters in Business administration‚ I have done few researches at my working places‚ not knowing that there are some many methods‚ approaches‚ etc. Thanks to Dr. Stephen Sommerville‚ for teaching me to do research in the professional way. Let my first research be the critical review of my own positionality i.e. who am I to me and in the others point of view? Does my positionality affect the research works I took or will take? Sitting back and thinking about
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Positivism emerged towards the end of the nineteenth century‚ and sought to oppose traditional‚ Classical ways of criminological thinking. The theory tended to look at crime scientifically‚ in order to produce facts based around the key causes of crime and so‚ they could attempt to truly understand what kind of people offend and for what reasons. Offenders and offending behaviour had been understood before as voluntary concepts‚ where people had free will and the choice to commit crime (or not to)
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What is the value of research produced in the social science? Knowledge‚ produced through research investigation‚ is generally valued more highly than common sense or an opinion based understanding of the world. Humans are naturally inquisitive‚ with an instinctive urge to obtain new information and motivated by a need to discover more about society and the world they live in. However without a systematic methodology‚ these ideas and ways of thinking‚ tend to be based on a persons own experiences
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“Sociology cannot and should not be a science”. To what extent do sociological arguments and evidence support this view? This statement‚ stating that sociology is not a science‚ is debated throughout sociology by two theoretical positions; positivism and interpretivism. The Positivist theory is based on the idea that explanations for events or people should be based on empirical scientific methods. They see the world as full of testable realities and use quantitative methods to try and support their
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in two main ways‚ positivism and interpretivism. ‘For many observers‚ this diversity is a sign of chronic intellectual failure and as an indication of the chaotic state into which the subject has fallen and cannot escape’ (Scott‚ J. 2011. P. 1)‚ however‚ a social researcher may argue that the differences in how research is conducted leads to a broader and more rounded understanding of the social world‚ even if they may maintain that their chosen method is correct. Positivism is the approach which
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Licensed to: iChapters User Research Method and Methodology in Finance and Accounting Second Edition Bob Ryan Robert W. Scapens Michael Theobold Australia . Canada . Mexico . Singapore . Spain . United Kingdom . United States Licensed to: iChapters User Research Method and Methodology in Finance and Accounting Copyright © Bob Ryan‚ Robert W. Scapens and Michael Theobold 2002 _______________________________________________________________________ The text of this publication‚ or
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Joshua Brown Hart and Positivism According to Hart law consists of primary and secondary rules. The primary rules are the rules that are “rules of obligation.” (Hart. Pg 204) This means that primary rules are rules that obligate a person to do something or to not do something. For example‚ the first Amendment‚ “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion‚ or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech‚ or of the press; or the right of the
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POLITICAL SCIENCE AS A SOCIAL SCIENCE Political Science is in part a social science‚ and in part a humanity. Both are important. In this topic‚ we will look at the basics of social science inquiry‚ and then proceed to show how this differs from‚ on the one hand‚ inquiry in the natural sciences and‚ on the other‚ inquiry in the humanities. Social Science Social science inquiry seeks to develop empirical theory. �Empirical�
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Examine the extent to which practical issues are the most important influence when selecting research methods and a research topic. (20 marks) When choosing research methods and topics sociologists must take into consideration a range of different factors‚ practicality certainy being an influential one. Other factors impacting on choice of research methods or topics include ethnical and theoretical issues. Firstly time and money is a practical issue took into consideraton because different methods
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Questions. a.) Discuss the problem which a researcher might encounter when conducting social surveys. Explain how to overcome the problems. b.) Explain the advantages and dis advantages of using survey method. According to chrishnaswami O.R (2003) social survey is defined as a fact finding study. It is a method of research involving the collection of data directly from a population or a sample there of a particular time. It must not be confused with the mere clerical routine of gathering and
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