SOC-UA 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter Parts 1-2: Convenience Sampling, Gentrification, Black Market
6 May 2016
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Ethnography - insider perspective of everyday mundane life there. Before a normal person in that scene because you spend so much time. Long term - spend years getting to know people. Historical comparatives - multiple cases and compare them to see differences and if they explain different outcomes o. Have script with questions - specific order and wording, neutral language. Cambridge ma- macleod is studying at harvard o. Public housing - racial tension, becoming more diverse. Sense of comradery - stigmatized by outsiders - don"t want to put down their address for jobs. Convenience sample - study people because you happen to know them. Macleod started this because he was helping with an after school program. Start with either random or convenience sample and then ask out that person"s social network. 15-19 core group of predominantly white teens with 2 black males (chris and boo-boo)
