SOCI 2000 Lecture 4: Lecture 4
30 Sep 2017
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Studying impact of playing violent video games on children"s behaviour: define definition of playing violent video games, measure children"s violent behaviour (through fights or # of times disciplined at school) Sociological theories: assumptions about human nature (consensus vs conflict)and organization of society (homogeneity vs inequality, macro level (grand narratives, large scale social processes) vs micro level (smaller interactions and specific) The theory and research cycle (top down) deductive: theories, hypotheses, observations, generalizations, knowledge (bottom down - qualitative/produce info about subject) inductive: observations, generalizations, theories, hypotheses, knowledge. It"s a process: refining theories based on data collected, balance bw theories that are overly broad(explain everything w little specificity) and theories that are too specific (small # of cases can"t be generalizable)
