SOCIOL 2Z03 Lecture Notes - Cohort Study, Longitudinal Study, Group Dynamics

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Trend studies: involve observations of changes in a general population over time. Will need a different sample each time this sample will have to be. A survey is done every 5 years on people born in 1993. We want to track this cohort over time to track their change in views on things. Panel studies: involve observation of changes in the same people over time in this case same sample is used each time i. e. a series of surveys every 2 weeks on the same voters in an election campaign. Without money, you can engage i secondary analysis engage is someone else"s research (2) ethics certain methods involve ethical dilemma (3) strengths and weaknesses of methods no research method is perfect. We have to be mindful of that. In poli sociology we do research that tries to explain why gov legislation took a particular form.

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