CHAPTER 2: THEORY AND RESEARCH (Babbie, 2016)

EXERCISE 2.2 (8 pts.)

Babbie describes the major social scientific paradigms. Identify and briefly summarize three (3) major paradigms in one of the other disciplines you have encountered in college. Examples of disciplines include biology, history, political science, education, economics, psychology, and leisure/recreation. Please note that the paradigms you describe will most likely be different from those discussed in the text; you need to identify the paradigms appropriate to the particular discipline you choose. Explain your choice of discipline and paradigms.

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Paradigm #1:

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Paradigm #3:

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CHAPTER 2: THEORY AND RESEARCH (Babbie, 2016)

EXERCISE 2.3 (8 pts.)

Imagine that you are a social scientist who wishes to examine in greater detail the implications of the paradigms discussed by Babbie. Specifically, you wish to apply the conflict and the structural-functionalism paradigms in a study of how your university operates. Give examples of how each paradigm may affect what you examine in your study.

How the university operates according to ...

Conflict paradigm:

(paradigm application):

(examples of how this paradigm perspective may affect the study):

Structural-functionalism paradigm:

(paradigm application):

(examples of how this paradigm perspective may affect the study):