Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Materialism
22 Oct 2018
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Concept: includes a term, includes a de nition; re ects a way of understanding a phenomenon. De nitions (limit what we"re looking for) > aspects under study. Need to de ne the operational criteria in order to study a concept. #1: without some theory/method by which you gather information, you"re not really doing sociology. Yes; it indicates income, upbringing, amount of work, how much time parents spent at home, how supervised you were, etc. Hypothesis takes the form of some kind of independent variable(s) that you believe leads to some kind of social outcome (dependent variable: the test: where conceptualization becomes crucial. How to answer the question: the research method. #2: term map red: more qualitative; blue: more quantitative. Quantitative vs qualitative methods: sociology uses to di erent kinds of method which depends on the kinds of data you want. Success in soc1020 can be measured through our marks (then you need.
