{"id":36,"date":"2019-05-10T17:13:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T21:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=36"},"modified":"2019-06-07T13:51:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:51:06","slug":"deductive-approaches-to-research","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/chapter\/deductive-approaches-to-research\/","title":{"raw":"Deductive Approaches to Research","rendered":"Deductive Approaches to Research"},"content":{"raw":"Researchers taking a <strong>deductive approach <\/strong>take the steps described for inductive research and reverse their order. They start with a social theory that they find compelling and then test its implications with data. That is, they move from a more general level to a more specific one. A deductive approach to research is the one that people typically associate with scientific investigation. The researcher studies what others have done, reads existing theories of whatever phenomenon he or she is studying, and then tests hypotheses that emerge from those theories (see Figure 1.5).\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_427\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"1524\"]<img src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/728\/2019\/05\/Deductive-Research.jpg\" alt=\"1. Theorize\/hypothesize. 2. Analyze data. 3. Hypotheses supported or not.\" class=\"size-full wp-image-427\" width=\"1524\" height=\"310\" \/> Figure 1.5: Steps involved with a deductive approach to research.[\/caption]\r\n<h3>Text Attributions<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>This chapter has been adapted from <a href=\"https:\/\/saylordotorg.github.io\/text_principles-of-sociological-inquiry-qualitative-and-quantitative-methods\/s05-03-inductive-or-deductive-two-dif.html\">Chapter 2.3 in <em>Principles of Sociological Inquiry<\/em><\/a>, which was adapted by the Saylor Academy without attribution to the original authors or publisher, as requested by the licensor. \u00a9 <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/3.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License<\/a><em>.<\/em><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;","rendered":"<p>Researchers taking a <strong>deductive approach <\/strong>take the steps described for inductive research and reverse their order. They start with a social theory that they find compelling and then test its implications with data. That is, they move from a more general level to a more specific one. A deductive approach to research is the one that people typically associate with scientific investigation. The researcher studies what others have done, reads existing theories of whatever phenomenon he or she is studying, and then tests hypotheses that emerge from those theories (see Figure 1.5).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_427\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-427\" style=\"width: 1524px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/728\/2019\/05\/Deductive-Research.jpg\" alt=\"1. Theorize\/hypothesize. 2. Analyze data. 3. Hypotheses supported or not.\" class=\"size-full wp-image-427\" width=\"1524\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/728\/2019\/05\/Deductive-Research.jpg 1524w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/728\/2019\/05\/Deductive-Research-300x61.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/728\/2019\/05\/Deductive-Research-768x156.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/728\/2019\/05\/Deductive-Research-1024x208.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/728\/2019\/05\/Deductive-Research-65x13.jpg 65w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/728\/2019\/05\/Deductive-Research-225x46.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/728\/2019\/05\/Deductive-Research-350x71.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1524px) 100vw, 1524px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-427\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 1.5: Steps involved with a deductive approach to research.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Text Attributions<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>This chapter has been adapted from <a href=\"https:\/\/saylordotorg.github.io\/text_principles-of-sociological-inquiry-qualitative-and-quantitative-methods\/s05-03-inductive-or-deductive-two-dif.html\">Chapter 2.3 in <em>Principles of Sociological Inquiry<\/em><\/a>, which was adapted by the Saylor Academy without attribution to the original authors or publisher, as requested by the licensor. \u00a9 <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/3.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License<\/a><em>.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media-attributions clear\" prefix:cc=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#\" prefix:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/terms\/\"><h2>Media Attributions<\/h2><ul><li about=\"https:\/\/saylordotorg.github.io\/text_principles-of-sociological-inquiry-qualitative-and-quantitative-methods\/s05-03-inductive-or-deductive-two-dif.html\"><a rel=\"cc:attributionURL\" href=\"https:\/\/saylordotorg.github.io\/text_principles-of-sociological-inquiry-qualitative-and-quantitative-methods\/s05-03-inductive-or-deductive-two-dif.html\" property=\"dc:title\">Deductive Research<\/a>      is licensed under a  <a rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)<\/a> license<\/li><\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"author":103,"menu_order":6,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":"cc-by-nc-sa"},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[56],"class_list":["post-36","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","license-cc-by-nc-sa"],"part":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/36\/revisions\/507"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/3"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/36\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/researchmethods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}