Life Space

4. Research that involves studying social phenomena as they occur naturally in the real world, with a minimum of control, manipulation, or deception
5. Thinking that begins with particular items of factual information and then tries to infer or develop broader, more general patterns or principles from them
9. Variables that are represented or measured numerically
13. Specifying the circumstances or conditions under which things happen
14. Identifying the ways that changes in variables may be empirically specified

1. Groups of individuals or objects from a population that were actually studied and that becomes the basis of generalizations about the wider population
2. In science, a testable statement about future events, based on empirically verifiable causal understanding of the relationships between research
3. A non-numerical approach to data gathering and analysis to discover underlying meanings and patterns
6. An essential part of research requiring researchers to set aside their everyday beliefs and assumptions, follow the procedures of empirical investigation, and present their discoveries and methods honestly and openly.
7. A study that attempts to discover information on a topic about which there is very little prior research to guide or focus the researcher
8. Various perspectives in the social sciences that emphasize ways in which the natural and the social sciences differ in their basic assumptions, approaches to research and methods
10. A variable that logically fits into a sequence between the independent and the dependent variable in complex relationships
11. Allowing youth to see a true, honest version of ourselves to (genuineness) and how we fit in their life-space space
12. Any aspect or characteristic that varies from case to case or over different times of observation