SOCIOL 2Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Visible Minority, Food Science, 18 Months
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Unobtrusive research: methods of studying social behaviour without affecting it. ** not covered in this course (i. e. you will not be examined on this) Explored the possibility of factors such as weather, gender, age and numerous others. These were not supported by the data, but he did find variation with political turmoil. His key thesis: suicide rates vary with breaches in social equilibrium social stability and integration seem to offer. Durkheim found that predominantly protestant countries (190 suicides per million population) had protection against suicide and depression. consistently higher suicide rates than catholic countries (58 per million population). Content analysis definition: a social research method appropriate for studying culture and human communications, such as books, magazines, newspapers, websites, songs, poems, or paintings. Examples: (cid:498)are french novels more concerned with love than canadian ones? (cid:499) (cid:498)are ethnic and racial issues more salient in canada than in the united states? (cid:499)