Year 12 recap revision

What approach to data does an interpretivist method take?

• Quantitative

• Qualitative

What method is most likely to lead to verstehen?

• Positivist

• interpretivist

What is Versthen?

• Where we change our behaviour

• where the researcher develops understanding and empathy

• where we try to be scientific

• where we try to establish cause and effect

which method is likely to have a specific aim and hypothesis

• positivist

• interpretivist

which approach is likely to be more scientific?

• positivist

• interpretivist

What is secondary data?

• involves information collected personally by a researcher.

• data that already exists in some form

As individuals we experience social structures as forces bearing down on us, pushing us to behave in certain ways and shaping our behavioral choices. Who agrees with this?

• Positivist

• Interpretivist

Which approach is arguably more value-free?

• Interpretivist

• Positivist

We have free will over our choices. In this sense people are unpredictable, so behavior cannot be studied the same way as a natural science. Which approach supports this?

• Interpretivist

• Positivist

Which approach is more valid?

• Positivist

• Interpretivist