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What are the elements of the research triangle?

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  • Methods
  • Methodology
  • Epistemology
  • Ontology
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What are methods?

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Means employed to gather data

3
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What is methodology?

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  • Means employed to inquire about the phenomenon

- Embedded in each statement of methodology are epistomonological and ontological assumptions

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What is epistemology?

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Knowledge regarded as evidence or depiction of

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What is ontology?

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Philosophical assumptions about what constitutes social reality

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What is theory?

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  • Formal, logical explanation of a phenomenon

- Allows understand and explanation/prediction

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What are the different kinds of theory?

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  • Macro
    • Relate individual behaviour to larger social structures
  • Meso
    • Theories that refer to organisations indepnent from the external environment
  • Micro
    • Personalities etc - individual
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What are the elements of a theory?

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  • Statements
  • Concepts
  • Variables
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What are the different variables within a theory?

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  • Independent
  • Dependednt
  • Mediator/Intervening
  • Moderator
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What is an independent variable in a theory?

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Factors that explain the dependent variable

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What is a dependent variable in a theory?

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Of primary interest to the researcher

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What is a Mediator/Intervening variable in a theory?

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Variable that mediates the relationship between IV and DV

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What is a moderator variable in a theory?

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Variable that strengthens or weakens the relationship between IV and DV

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What are the criteria for nomothetic causality?

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  • Variables must be correlated
  • Cause takes place before the effect
  • Variables are nonspurious
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What is a spurious relationship?

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Coincidental statistical correlation between two variables shown to be caused by some third variable

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What are the types of causes in causality?

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  • Necessary
    • Must be present for the effect to follow
  • Sufficient
    • If present, guarantees the effect in question
    • Easier to identify