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(subject research methodology) answer true or false and explain why or why not: 1. A social...

(subject research methodology)

answer true or false and explain why or why not:

1. A social constructivist is interested in understanding how people share their experiences and give meaning to different phenomena through the medium of language.

2. An inductive methodology always starts with a generic proposition and then, through logical steps, arrives at specific statements.

3. a positivist believes that there is only one single truth about reality, and the way to inquire about that reality is through impersonal and objective methods.

4. Secondary data is data created by research with the specific aim of answering the researcher’s questions

exercise 2: imagine you wanted to conduct research on the effect of high inflation on poverty in Latin America countries. Pose a potential hypothesis and enumerate data you would collect in order to test it.

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1. A social constructivist is interested in understanding how people share their experiences and give meaning to different phenomena through the medium of language.


False

Above listed properties are directly reflecting the qualities of a social constructionist.

2. An inductive methodology always starts with a generic proposition and then, through logical steps, arrives at specific statements.

True

Specific methodology starts with the generic preposition by discussing the facts and then do logical steps and explaining about the ideology behind the specific methodology arrives at the specific statement.

3. a positivist believes that there is only one single truth about reality, and the way to inquire about that reality is through impersonal and objective methods.

False

a positivist investigates and know about the truth on the basis of their general believes rather than being so focused on inquiring about the reality.

4.Secondary data is data created by research with the specific aim of answering the researcher’s questions

False

It is the primary data that is required to answer the research questions, secondary data is for supporting the primary data.

P.S.- please use separate Threads to ask more than 4 parts at a time.

keosha answered 1 year ago
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