SOCI 2P11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Proportional Representation, Statistical Inference, Royal Institute Of Technology
14 Oct 2016
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A methodological framework that facilitates the gathering and analysis of data. Research design may aim to: uncover cause-effect relationships; understand; generalize findings; give voice. Research objectives research design: research methods. How will we select our sample? (quant: how many people qual: Goal: to examine relationships between variables (correlation) Ideally, researchers want to uncover cause-effect relationships between variables. Ethnic background - variable different attributes attribute: the categories or levels of a variable. Male not variable (its an attribute) Social worker occupation: variable social worker is the attribute. Upper class non variable - variable: would be social class. Highest level of education: variable w possible attributes. Which variable would come first is how you would determine which one is the independent variables. Number of cancer-related deaths per 1000 population or number of medical doctors per1000 population (independent) Graph of jobs and salary"s occupation would be the independent. Don"t use the word proof use the word support.
