SOCIOL 2Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ecological Fallacy, Cultural Artifact, Dependent And Independent Variables
23 Sep 2016
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Lecture 3 ethical issues for social researchers & research design (sept 14 sept. Definition of ethical": conforming to standards of conduct of a given profession or group (webster"s world dictionary) A number of controversial studies throughout the 20th century led to the eventual creation of various codes of ethics and guidelines that specified moral conduct in research. The tri-council policy statement called ethical conduct for research involving humans (tcps) was created in 1998 and was revised in 2010 (tcps 2). Units of analysis: variables and the logic of causation. A variable that has an effect on another variable. The outcome or the variable that is being caused by the i. v. Extraneous variables (z) looked like a cause in relationship. Possible other variable that might account for the relationship between x and y. I. v d. v (x-y) one must come first. Must know which one came first in a case b/c the observations must be correct.
