6. Issue Social Science, Worldview I Humanities, Worldview II Human Nature Determinism (past experiences, personality, cause people to behave in certain ways) Knowable, Physical reality Pragmatism (people are practical and plan their behavior, not passive reactors) Goal of Theory Understand, Predict Understand Only Process of Theory Development Deductive (hypothesis before any research) Inductive (start with data, them develop theory) Focus of Research Particularism (whole picture will be uncovered piece by piece) Holism (Looking at the situation in its entirety) Research Methods Experiments, Quantitative Survey, Content Analysis Ethnography, Qualitative Survey, Textual Analysis