Main Points of Chapter 1

1. What are the possible human sources of knowledge?

2. How is science different?

3. What are the goals of science?

4. How do modernism and post modernism differ regarding science?

5. What is the difference between an attribute and a variable?

6. What are independent and dependent variables?

7. How do deductive observations differ from inductive observations?

8. What are quantitative and qualitative information different?

9. What are the key considerations in the ethics of social research?