SOCL 2001 : SOCL 2001 Test 1
Document Summary
Chapter 1: the study of human society, how people react with one another and behave in certain situation, the individual within a group. What is a social institution: social institutions are networks of structures in society that work to socialize the groups of people within them, examples include: legal system rules and regulations that vary from place to place. Gets a lot of information. (excel: qualitative: methods attempt to collect information about the social world that cannot be readily converted to numeric form. Hypothesis: a proposed relationship between 2 variables (dependent and independent variables: represented by either the null hypothesis or an alternation hypothesis. Role of the researcher: experimenter effects, white coat effect: when people know you are studying them it changes their behavior, reflexivity: how it is you can affect you subjects and doing all you can to mitigate those effects. Interest, idea, theory: creating and finding theory.
