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Quantitative Methods
- The research question
- Research must start with a question
- Question may derive from our own
personal observations or from our
reading of others’
- Meacham: “Ignorance
and knowledge grow
together
- Research must start with a question
- The unit of analysis
- In thinking about the research question it is important to
specific what the unit of analysis is. Itmight be, for
example, the individual, the project group, the
organisation, the industry sector, or the national state
- What is the focus?
- In thinking about the research question it is important to
specific what the unit of analysis is. Itmight be, for
example, the individual, the project group, the
organisation, the industry sector, or the national state
- Theories and hypotheses
- Researcher will consider relevant theories
about the social world from which s/he can
derive specificandtestablehypotheses
- Collect data
- Refute or confirm the hypotheses
- Substantiate the theory
- What is meant by a theory
in the social sciences?
- Sherif
- Asch
- Sherif
- Researcher will consider relevant theories
about the social world from which s/he can
derive specificandtestablehypotheses
- Quantitative research methods
- Experiments
- 1) Field versus laboratory experiments
- 2.Surveys – Questionnaires and interviews
- 1) Field versus laboratory experiments
- Describing and analysing data
- Tests
- Experiments
- Reliability and validity
- Reading
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