SLGY 2232 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Nomothetic, Krahn People, Cultural Revolution
16 Feb 2017
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Chapter 4 research design and the logic of causation. Comparison of three types of longitudinal studies. Defined observation of a population, event, or phenomenon at one point in time. Bian, for example, conducted a survey of workers in tianjin, china, for the purpose of studying stratification in contemporary urban chinese society. In undertaking the survey in 1988, however, he was conscious of the important changes brought about by a series of national campaigns, such as the great proletarian cultural revolution, dating from the 1949. Chinese revolution (that brought the communists into power) and continuing into the present. These campaigns altered political atmospheres and affected people"s work and nonwork activities. Because of these campaigns, it is difficult to draw conclusions from a cross-sectional social survey, such as the one presented in this book, about general patterns of chinese workplaces and their effects on workers.
