SOCECOL 10 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Semantic Differential, Content Analysis, Operational Definition
1 Apr 2017
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Example of how interest develops: women interested in seeing relationship between gender and depression. She may want to know if being depressed is statistically related to gender approach involving gather data from hospitals, counseling centers. Using psychiatric definition of depression as the operational definition. Issue may be that data collection will tell us that maybe more women than men seek psych help for problems: solution is to use survey research. Find info on doing surveys: gallup. com, amstat. org, Steps in designing a survey: 1. State what types of data will be collected and specify the particular hypotheses to be explored (making sure to define what your variables are. Depression indicators like feeling state, trouble sleeping: 3. State which population you are addressing (to which group you plan on generalizing the results: 4 questionnaire. How the sample is to be surveyed, particular questions to be asked. Open ended or fixed-alternative: 5 field work.
