Main Points of Chapter 2

1. What are the alternative paradigms available to social scientists?

2. Which are macro and which are micro?

3. What are the differences between functionalism and conflict theory?

4. What are the differences between symbolic interactionism and ethnomethodogy?

5. Can you distinguish a concept, variable, axiom, proposition, and hypothesis?

6. What qualifies as a deductive theory vs. an inductive theory

7. What is the difference between an empirical generalization and a law?