SOCI 2445 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Dysfunctional Family, Domestic Violence, Homicide
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Collection system: starts with a representative group of people that represents the greater population. Interview: recruit and train people on what questions to ask and what information to collect, reese, lied to the police about the research. He really researched on how the police acted. (they told the police they were studying the public). Intent to establish a list of criteria that would constitute the definition of police brutality and excessive force. The researchers observe effects: control, subjects are not exposed to an independent variable, need, correlation between variables. The effect must not be caused by something other than the independent variable. 3 basic explanations with respect to theories: empathetic, subjective empathetic interactive approach, you are interviewing people who have been victims of a type of behaviour, criticized for limitations: too much emotion involved in the fact gathering. Ideological: theories or systems of ideas, beliefs, values.
