Designing Research in the Social Sciences by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Research, Reference
ISBN: 9781446291092
Google: jYgRAgAAQBAJ
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2012-12-18T05:37:57+00:00

Questions

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1 Read closely five articles making causal arguments in your field of study. To what extent do they correspond to a ‘causes-of-effects’ or ‘effects-of-causes’ perspective?

2 For each of the five articles, reframe the causal claims using the potential-outcomes framework and construct the equivalent of Table 4.1.

3 Read five articles making causal arguments using standard regression methods. To what extent can the findings actually be interpreted causally?

4 Think of a specific research question. What would be the ideal experiment to test the causal argument? Now try to develop a research design that can approximate it as much as possible in practice.

5 Read closely five of the articles cited as examples in this chapter (or other articles of your choice) and assess them with respect to the trade-off between the validity of the causal inference and the relevance or importance of the findings.

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