SOCIOL 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Likert Scale, Research On The Effects Of Violence In Mass Media, Historical Sociology

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 1Z03
• Professor: sandra colavecchia

Document Summary

Secondary data analysis ( documentary analysis , historical sociology , use of official statistics. Why is helping behaviour declining in the united states but. : ethnic diversity, new technologies, and other explanations. Household structure in canada through the 20th c. Confidentiality: identity not revealed to the public the researcher is able to identify a given person"s responses with that person. The researcher is not able to identify a given person"s responses with that person. Qualitative: focus on process (how, why); giving voice to participants . Likert scale (strongly agree to strongly disagree) Cross-sectional: data taken at one point in time. Longitudinal: study done at more than one point in time. Not applicable to all things that sociologists want to study. Replicating a positivist approach to research (not conducive to rapport building; A theoretical approach that considers knowledge and understanding to be the results of human subjectivity. Positivist approach to research: "subject" rather than participant, traditional.