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Epistemology is a broader term and I think methods and methodology would be determined by sub sections of Epistemology like Positivism or Interpretivism. In general, I think epistemology has relation with method and methodology but It would not directly navigate researchers to choose methods.

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Epistemology will determine the method choice. Epistemology is aim to get research for turth. and we need to use the appropriate method to research the truth. So we  can find the suitable method with epistemology's help.

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The relationship between ontology and epistemology is related and different. Generally, there is an epistemology and there is a related ontology. For example, Materialist ontology usually corresponding to materialist epistemology.

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Epistemology is related to methodology and methods. Epistemology determines people's cognition of things in the world, and it can be used as a theoretical guide for people to choose research methods.

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Epistemology affects researchers in discovering the research framework of knowledge, which is a kind of value theory. Epistemology can guide the choice of methodology, which is a strategy to study problems and can specify the choice of methods.

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Yes, epistemology does determine the choice of methodology and methods. Epistemology is always being regarded as guideline of the methodology, meanwhile, methodology is also affected by the epistemology about how we choose to understand the world.

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I think there is a relationship between epistemology and methodology. Epistemology allows researchers to better choose research methods, while research methods start from methods and methodology. Therefore, epistemology and methodology are just different perspectives to think about research.

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Epistemology is a way of method chosing. For the basic summary of the basic laws of life, he can guide practice but is higher than practice. Knowledge comes from dialectical thinking about objective things and the knowledge itself. The fundamental source is the dialectic of cognition. That is to say, we can understand the objective reality as well as the cognition itself. This dialectical relationship of cognition is the fundamental source of cognition. Our acceptance and criticism constitute a dialectical view of knowledge.

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Epistemology can determine the research method, and the research method depends on the method and methodology. Therefore, epistemology determines method and methodology to a certain extent

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I think methodology is a choice and knowledge of epistemology, that is, to a certain extent, epistemology determines the choice and performance of methodology.

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The two aspects of the basic problem of philosophy are inseparable. This means that ontology and epistemology are inseparable. There is neither an epistemology independent of ontology nor an ontology independent of epistemology. In the whole philosophy, ontology has a decisive significance for other components of philosophy, as well as epistemology. Generally speaking, there is an epistemology for any ontology.

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Epistemology is the study of the way we receive and interpret information from the world. It involves whether objective reality exists, how we know that our perception of it is accurate.
Ontology refers to the ultimate nature of all reality, and the cognition of this nature needs to be obtained through epistemology.

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The ultimate nature of a reality needs to be understood through epistemology. The study of the ultimate nature of all reality is ontology, and the study of how to understand meaning is epistemology.

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Ontology is the study of the nature of the world, of the things that exist in the world.Epistemology is the study of how we understand things in the world. It is the study of the nature of human knowledge and is used to explore the possibilities of human cognition.Ontology is the first step to understand the world, and then use epistemology to explore the world at a deeper level.

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Ontology is the philosophical theory that explores the origin of the world, while epistemology is the individual's view of knowledge, the individual's belief on knowledge and knowledge acquisition. I think there is a connection between ontology and empistemology. People need to start from their own knowledge, in short, their own epistemology, so as to better explore and discover ontology.

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Ontology is a discussion about what exists, and epistemology is a discussion about how to know what exists. For example, when I say that the world is material and everything that exists is material, this is a kind of ontology; people ask me how you know it, and I say by feeling, this is epistemology. Ontology and epistemology may seem very different at first glance, but they intersect together, and this intersection is people. "Isn't man a product of the world, isn't the world a human imagination?" The cornerstone of epistemology is ontology. The above-mentioned "knowing by feeling" actually confirms the status of feeling ontology. The evidence of ontology lies in epistemology. What we say exists, the evidence we can provide is epistemological, which means that there is no objective evidence.

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Ontology is the term about reality and how we perceive them. Epistemology is about the knowledge of reality. They are linked together as ontology would come first to make first step for epistemology.

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Ontology is about the existence of the nature world. Epistemology is about the knowledge. The link between these two would be that epistemology is the understanding of the knowledge of the ontology.

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Ontology is a theory of reality. In other words, it refer to what kind of things exist in the word. Epistemology is a theory of knowledge. It concerns what we know and how to we gain the knowledge.

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Mixed method are combanation of quabtitative method and qualitative method, the mixed method can choose the best way to explore the essence of the study.Mixed method can get as close as possible to the fact of the research.

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Before conducting quantitative research, the researcher could use qualitative research to determine the nature of the phenomenon to be studied; in the process of quantitative research, the researcher could use qualitative research to determine the quantitative limit of the phenomenon and the cause of the qualitative change.

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After learning the research methods, we can collect materials about the actual or historical conditions of the research object in a purposeful, planned, and systematic manner, or use mathematical tools to process a series of quantities on the research object to make correct explanations and judgments. Finally, we get the results expressed in digital form.

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Because research methods is the way to organaze the whole article . A suitable method is very significant for a rearch, we need to use different method to study different question. A suitable method can lead to a good research result.

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research methods can provide a systematic method to study the problem and obtain data and information, so as to better analyse the problem and provide strong evidence and support for the following-up research.

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The mixed method can provide more comprehensive analysis and data, and its research direction is no longer limited, and it becomes more flexible, which can make up for the lack of data in a certain research aspect of a method, and make the analysis more reasonable.

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Studying research methods can help us to make a choice when we are exploring a topic. Also, it help us to know how to collect and analyse data. In addition, only when we know the research methods can we know the process and write our own findings.

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The mixed method means that when researchers determine the scope of their research, they all need to apply specific research methods, and the use of the mixed method is convenient to obtain the best results.The mixed methods reflects participants' views between understanding quantitative and qualitative results.

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One advantage of the mixed method is that the combination of quantitative and qualitative methods provides a better understanding of research problems and complex phenomena than the use of two methods alone.
In addition, it is complementary. It can compare the results of the two methods to make a more rigorous argument or clarification.

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Because if we need well-prepared materials for our research, we must understand how and why the research is done, and what the data collected mean.So a basic understanding of research methods will help us interpret research results in any field of behavioral science.

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The use of mixed method research can make the research data more detailed, enrich our understanding of the research problem, increase the value of the research, and make the research results more convincing.

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Mixed method helps researcher to have skills, tools to achieve better understanding or accurate results because mixed method is the combination of quantitative method and qualitative method which offer different results each one alone.

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Studying research method help us to understand how professional researchers approach a research, how the collect and analyze data, what is the overall process for doing a research and lastly how to assess research quality. So we can take those as lessons or choices for us when we need to implement or practice doing a research.

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Mixed methods has the advantage of making our results more accurate. In the process of research, we need to use different research methods that including quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods. Mixed methods allows researchers to come to better conclusions over the course of the study.

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Because we have to choose the right method to study different problems. In the process of research, we should choose the corresponding questions for different objects.

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Because we have learned research methods, we can choose research methods, understand how to collect and analyze data, understand the subject process of research, and ultimately improve the overall quality of research.

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Because we have learned research methods, we can choose research methods, understand how to collect and analyze data, understand the subject process of research, and ultimately improve the overall quality of research.

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Mixed methods benefit in understanding contradictions between quantitative results and qualitative findings, Reflecting participants' point of view. They give a voice and ensure that study findings are grounded in.

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Mixed methods includes quantitative, qualitative and mixed of both. By selecting different methods, if helps you understand the problem you are working on and also when you have more than one method in research it also enhance the ability of organizing and combine information.

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Research methods can help you clarify the structure of your research. It can also help you solve problems better by using appropriate methods.

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mixed method research has a more comprehensive perspective. It can obtain more data than using quantitative or qualitative research alone.

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Research methods help us collect samples, data and find a solution to a problem. Scientific research methods call especially for explanations based on collected facts, measurements, and observations rather than reasoning alone. They accept only those explanations which can be verified by experiments.

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Research method helps you to have a clear structure of your research. It also helps you to solve a problem by using different methods. By providing different training of designing, experimenting, analyzing and evaluating, it helps us to understand and solve the problem clearly.

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First of all, every country has clear laws and regulations about crime.The law is the result of careful investigation by researchers.Therefore, a system to define crime is extremely important, not only for our morality, each person's subjective feelings, but also for the development of this society itself.

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The reason why how we define crime is important is that crime is a serious thing. If anyone is regard as a criminal, he or she needs to pay the price for that, like imprison, even death sentence. As the price is so hard, government must take the responsibility to define crime seriously. In other word, if there was not a suitable law, people would't do things legally. And I can't imagine how the world will be without law.

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Because laws are made by people, crime is specific kind of deviant behaviour which refers to breaking the law and is followed by legal forms of punishment.

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In my opinion, the definition of crime is broad and ever-changing, because it is basically set on a given set of social norms which are changed by time and different by regions. Therefore, considering which is crime really matter for lawmakers because they have to take into account many aspects to cover all of circumstances that could be widely accepted as crime. When it comes to research, I think researchers usually aim to shortcomings of lawmaker or rules , which do not work well with society anymore, to investigate. So, they have to gather many examples to tackle those problems, but law is diverse and ever-changing so researchers could have difficulties when they investigate about crime and law.

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Because only by defining crime in some way can law enforcement officials punish offenders according to this definition.The importance of defining crime lies in the fact that it needs to be constantly changing in response to changes in society and times.This is to ensure that in today's society there is a standard definition of crime to help law enforcement officers use the law to punish criminals.This also requires researchers to conduct continuous social surveys and studies to determine the definition of crime.

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Because I think the crime problem is parasitic on the society, no matter how time goes on, the society will be accompanied by the crime problem. With the development of society, crime is becoming more and more complex. We are constantly updating our cognition of crime. If we do not define some behaviours as crimes, criminals will take advantage of loopholes to do things detrimental to the stability and development of society.But for researchers, they need to study and judge whether certain behaviours can be defined as crimes in order to maintain social stability and development.

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First of all,  I think the definition of a crime is an act that breaks the law. So the definition of crime is based on the premise of the law. Because the law is to restrain the criminal behavior, whether to the person or the society, the law has the very high value. And law gives us a better definition of crime. Researchers analyze criminal behavior not only from the definition of the crime itself, but also from the law. Because different countries have different customs, they have different laws. Therefore, the different definitions of different crimes will affect the researchers' judgment.

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Defining crime would help to build a complete or better law to prevent the criminal and also help related court or officer to judge them when they commit crimes. Well, the researchers are aiming to find a perfect definition of crime which can be used in their future study.

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Crime means that someone has transcended moral boundaries and did something that is not permitted by law.Therefore, researchers must distinguish between legal and moral issues, because breaking the law is a crime, so as to avoid misunderstanding others and the law.

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I think he’s right. Because the international community mistakenly measures progress against poverty in terms of a miserable standard of living rather than a minimum standard of living.This, in turn, feeds exaggerated talk of imminent eradication of extreme poverty and plays down the perilous state of poverty in which billions of people still live.

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I think this is not accurate. Poverty includes life and psychology, and no matter what kind of poverty cannot be truly measured.

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IPL is a measurement of poverty and based on global currency and calculated by PPP as dollars. The problem with this measurement is it does not directly perform the cost of necessary needs which people in poverty wish for their daily basic. 

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IPL is a measurement of poverty and based on global currency and calculated by PPP as dollars. The problem with this measurement is it does not directly perform the cost of necessary needs which people in poverty wish for their daily basic. 

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Because this measurement(IPL) would not depicting the situation as it actually is and many people who living in poverty is not covered in proverty area.

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As stated by world bank, the poverty is linked to the income level, and I totally agree with that.
To be more specific, I supposed that the income level may impact on inflation, and it wouldn't affects the purchasing power of people who has high income. But for someone who don't has enough income, it does.

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I think income is only one factor, and that's the main problem.  Because different regions, will produce different income gap.
At the same time, how much income and consumption ability is also related.

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I think they lack a lot of research because the basic necessities of life are more expensive in some countries than in some poor countries.Each region also has different levels of consumption, and these factors affect people's income and spending.So income level cannot be directly related to poverty level.

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I think the criterion to judge whether a person is poor is not only  income ,it requires us to consider many factors, such as basic health care, basic education. if people don't have access to receive this, they are still stuck in poverty.In addition, people's living standard and consumption level are different in different regions,Therefore, the standard for measuring poverty is different.

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it is problematic because the dimension or the position is different. When people feel poor, they are comparing with someone or a indicator. And this feeling won't stay the same through the time, even if your income is about the number, you will still feel poor because you can't live like the other rich people.

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It also depends on the income level of other people. When the income level of other people is increasing, even if his income level does not change, he will feel poorer than before.

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I think the Word Bank's definition of poverty is correct to link to income level. But the definition is too one-sided, it should include more metrics. For example, some people have incomes above the minimum level necessary to meet basic needs. But these people still lack access to good schools, health care, electricity, safe water and other critical services.

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Social science is subject that helps us to study ourselves, and study how people to survive together on the earth. it is a significant fundamention subject that can help me to study my major.

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In my opinion, Social Science is the study of phenomena in human society with scientific methods. This subject can help us study how people interact with each other, how they develop, and how they influence the world.

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In my opinion, Social Science is a subject that we learn about social phenomena to understand better about our society in many aspects such as interaction among people, economic activities, etc. This could help us to figure out problems in our society and find solutions for those problems, as well as point out positive activities for us to take those as lessons, experiences.

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I think social science is a study that explores social phenomena and looks through the phenomena to see the essence of problems. It needs to understand a very wide range of knowledge.Social science does not have a fixed formula to explain the reasons, and different people will have different views and opinions.

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It is a specific research method for some human social behavior or situation.
Because of the part of "social", the research and studies will serve human purposes.
Maybe under the guidance of more "scientific" statistical methods.

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In my opinion, social science is something that give us a correct way to know more about the various phenomena in human society.
------------------------------Chloe

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I think social science is a discipline that enables us to better study social phenomena.
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I think social science is of great help to people's lives, It also can help people understand each other more efficiently and build a better social system together.

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I think social science is of great help to people's lives, It also can help people understand each other more efficiently and build a better social system together.

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-----------Zhiwei Chen (Nick)

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I think social science is a study of the society and how people think and behave.

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I think social science is a study of the society and how people think and behave.

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---------Jingwei Pan(Michael)

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I believe that social science is understanding the society rationally in a scientific way.

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I believe that social science is understanding the society rationally in a scientific way.

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------Xianpeng Li (Lee)

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For me, social science is the study of the society in which we live, the study of how the society functions, the study of how people in the society cooperate.

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For me, social science is the study of the society in which we live, the study of how the society functions, the study of how people in the society cooperate.

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----Jiyuan Wang(Wade)

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Why is it important to study research methods?

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Why do you think it matters how we define crime? What difference does it make for the researcher?

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What is mixed methods research good for?

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Does epistemology determine the choice of methodology and methods?

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What is the link between ontology and epistemology?

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In the video for Lesson 1 this week two definitions of poverty were mentioned. One of them is by the World Bank and states that poverty is linked to income levels. Why is this definition problematic?

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How we define crime matters because we need a set of rules to ensure the stable development of society and protect the rights of individuals and the public. In the another way, it also help us to remove unreasonable laws and add more laws according to the development of society.
For the reachers, defining crime help them to study the reasons, correction and prevention of crime.

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Defining crime is to distinguish it from other things and be recognized. To achieve the purpose of differentiation, naturally only through its unique characteristics.
Crime is an act. Breaking a certain law that protects people or society or the country.
We need to filter behavior. Maybe some mistakes are not worthy of being defined as a crime, such as wasting food. There may be some actions that cannot be defined as crimes because they have not done so, such as claiming to attack someone. From the public's point of view, it may be considered a crime to do bad things. But for researchers, they must carefully weigh the facts and behaviors of crimes in order to maintain a balance between society and the country.