SOCIOL 1C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Historical Sociology, Research On The Effects Of Violence In Mass Media, Hawthorne Effect
16 Feb 2018
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Household structure in canada through the 20th century. The researcher is able to identify a given person"s responses with that person. The researcher is not able to identify a given person"s responses with that person. Qualitative: focus on process (how, why); giving voice to participants Cross sectional: data taken at one point in time. Longitudinal: study done at more than one point in time. Hawthorne effect - people behave differently if they know they"re being. Hawthorne effect - people behave differently if they know they"re being watched. Validity - whether you"re catching the variable you think you"re catching. Not applicable to all things that sociologists want to study. Replicating a positivist approach to research (not conductive to rapport building; subject rather than participant) Designing good questions is difficult (mutually exclusive, exhaustive categories) Data is limited to what is on paper. Ethnocentrism - the idea that the researchers perspective/point of view will get in the way of their research (bias)
