SOCY 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Informed Consent, Grounded Theory, Ecological Fallacy

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 210
• Professor: Fiona Kay

Document Summary

Textbook: fundamentals of social research (3rd edition) by earl babbie and lucia. Effective notes, write down info / examples used in lecture they will be on quizzes, take a look at the note-taking guidelines early. Economic recession impact on employment rates, housing costs. Why conduct social research: interested to learn about social behaviour of world. How people end up on trial or in the jury. Social research investigates question in a systematic way Teachers, experts, parents or internet for info. A source you feel you can trust. Limitations = we may assume they"re right but they"re wrong, we are misinformed. Example how to vote on an election: tradition. We may accept something as true because its always been that way. Assumptions of families operating better with stay at home mothers. Class, mutual friend, online, bars, arranged marriages, accidental encounters (any sort of social scenes) While it may be true at one time, it may be disorted: common sense.