SOC 2109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Extrasensory Perception, Causal Inference, Inductive Reasoning

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2109
• Professor: Aline Couhtino

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Step 3: all participants complete another task: the experimental group performed much better on the second task. Criteria to assess quantitative research: validity accuracy of findings. Internal and external validity: internal: how well your procedures was that lead to the causal inference. I tend to do qualitative research (cid:498)from specific to the general(cid:499: not about testing theories, exploration, description, theory development and revision (start from the empirical stance, methodological empathy. Ethnography: collection of descriptive detailed information about a group, do not interfere; just observe, studying people in their own environment. Have to watch: nonparticipant observation, covert: just watching, kind of pretending to watch, overt: or you can let them know, ethnographic moral dilemmas, three clusters of dilemmas: Virtues: sympathy (confess qualms), openness (open to all voices), honour (consent) Self: unobstructed: no cues, etc, precision, omniscience, unobstructed, precise in description, can(cid:495)t put words in someone(cid:495)s mouth, chaste: can(cid:495)t be romantically involved, chaste, fair (presenting motives), literary, literary: write in-depth.