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Scope & Methods in Political Science (PS) - Coggle Diagram
Scope & Methods in Political Science (PS)
Foundations of social science research
Epistemology
Ontology
How do we know the things we know?
Systematic procedures
Empirical, testable, replicablesystemtaic
Ethical issues and diversity
Data collection and analysis
Operationalization and measurement
Levels of measurement and why it matters
Data collection approaches
Sampling and case selection
Probability vs non-probability sampling designs
Data analysis
Qualitative data analysis
Quantitative data anlysis
Mixed methods
Measurement validity and reliability
Concepts and theories in PS
Conceptual and operational definitions
Research questions
Importance of literature review
Frameworks, theories, models
Research design
Experiments
Threats to validity
Surveys
Generalizabity/ external validyt
Case studies
Secondary data
Big data
Internal and external study validity