Social Work and Human Services – inductive and deductive theory

Social Work and Human Services – inductive and deductive theory

Work type:   Essay (any type)

Format:         APA

Pages:            3 pages ( 825 words, Double spaced

Academic level:       Undergrad. (yrs 3-4)

Subject or discipline:         Social Work and Human Services – inductive and deductive theory

Title:   Inductive and Deductive Theory

Number of sources:           3

Paper instructions:

The Assignment (3 pages):

• Summarize the two case studies below and their findings.
• Define inductive and deductive theory.
• Explain the specific aspects of these studies that make them either inductive or deductive.

 

For this assignment: Please answer all three questions.

 

Read the case studies: “An Example of Inductive Theory: Why Do People Smoke Marijuana?” and “An Example of Deductive Theory: Distributive Justice” from Chapter 2 of the Babbie course text. The pages are 50-55 for both case studies.

 

Please use as one of the resources and two more of your chose

 

Babbie, E. (2016). The basics of social research (7th ed.). Belmont, CA: Cengage. Chapter 2, “Paradigms, Theory, and Research” (pp. 30–59)