SOCI 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Carjacking, Social Desirability Bias, Well-Founded Relation
12 Mar 2015
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Sources of response bias: mistrust of official representatives, social desirability bias, financial motivation. Difficulty in finding respondents (aka rs: manzo working in toronto studying iv drug use on the streets hard to find respondents willing to partake in study, lack of contact info, decentralization of deviants. Hookers are found in one general area in a major city, but not all deviants tend to congregate in one area (alcoholics, for example) Wariness of funding sources: often not an issue in canada, more true in the us. Rs" misunderstanding of survey instruments: inappropriate questions, language barriers, cultural implications overlooked, etc. Folklore or urban legends": friend of a friend" stories, express fears about modern life, including: New technology: e-cigarettes have been used by some drug users, and lack of knowledge has left us scared of them, we define them as deviant". Minorities, new immigrants, other outgroups": we construct narratives to explain something that"s changing so that we aren"t afraid of change.
