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Chapter 2
Learning Objectives
- Learn about the nature of social-scientific theories.
- Understand what a social-scientific hypothesis is.
- Distinguish between correlation and causation.
- Understand both empirical and theoretical critiques and the distinction between them.
- Develop understanding of the issues involved in successful measurement of social-scientific phenomena.
Key Concepts
- Theories
- Hypotheses
- Types of Evidence
- Correlation
- Causation
- Empirical Critiques
- Confirming Cases
- Deviant Cases
- Theoretical Critiques
- Measurement
- Bias
- Measurement Error
- Validity