CCJS 300 Study Guide - Spring 2019, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Social Science, Project Camelot, Karl Marx

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CCJS 300
• Professor: Alan Lehman

Document Summary

The way to look at a body of information/material/research, and understand it so it can be used to do more research. Positivistic: trying to map the way we think about social sciences using methods from the hard sciences (auguste comte) Critical: liberating knowledge for a better world (marx, freud) Cross-sectional research: a snapshot in time (i. e. survey research) Longitudinal research: time as a variable, over/across time. Time series: observing multiple people, multiple times, across time. Panel: the same people observed at two or more times. Cohort: people who share an experience at two or more times. Case study: small set of people observed intensely over a period of time. Women had unfortunate consequences, hair, voice drops, etc. 1961, communists built wall to stop citizens from fleeing west. Berlin wall split germany in two, kept west in while government looked for ways to govern. Sold to citizens as something amazing to be a student athlete, no school just sports.