SOC 2109 Lecture 3: Entire SOC2109 Notes
15 Mar 2017
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Social psychology: sociological perspectives how do we explore social world. Although there are a number of methods and perspectives employed to study people, several important concepts are used in almost all research projects including things like: Social theories refer to organized sets of propositions about how various elements of social life are related to one another. Statements about the causes of those relationships. General predictions, based on 3 reasons, about how people will react to certain events or experiences of conditions. Research projects generally do not test theories but hypotheses, specific statements about how variables will relate to one another in a research study. Positive findings regarding a hypothesis simply provides support for a theory; it does not prove a theory to be correct. Theoretical concepts must be converted into variables, theoretical concepts put into a measurable form, a process called operationalizing.
