The interpretative social science approach is described as ideographic in its theory and method. What does
this mean?
A) It is the use of abstract ideas, laws, or propositions to deduce logically or infer specific hypotheses that
researchers test against the facts of observable empirical reality.
B) It tries to discover a system of causal laws that determines patterns of human behavior.
C) It focuses on descriptions of specific people and events in a particular situation.
D) It attempts to change the social world based on evidence that supports one's ideological perspective.
Dr. Useem designed an experiment on group competition to be realistic. She divided subjects into 6 threeperson teams. Only one could win a race to assemble a large complex toy.
She wanted subjects to get
caught up in the situation so it would have a large impact on them. A confederate posed as the vice
president of a toy manufacturer who offered each member of the winning team 300, but members of the 5
losing teams got nothing. She's trying to create
A) experimental realism. B) mundane realism.
C) internal validity. D) generic realism.
According to the critical social science perspective, humans often have unrealized potential.
Often this
occurs when people treat human creations as if they were something separate and alien that have a force
independent of the people who created them. This is called
A) ideal type. B) idiographic C) relativism. D) reification.
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