SSH 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cultural Artifact, Longitudinal Study, Sub Pop

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Sciences and Humanities
• Course: SSH 301
• Professor: Patrizia Albanese

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Time dimension: (a) cross-sectional; (b) longitudinal: (i) trend (1 thing, diff people); (ii) cohort (same gen. pop, diff sample); (iii) panel (same pop, same sample: test your understanding of new material. Exploratory research: research conducted for a problem that has not been studied more clearly. Descriptive research: who, what, where, when (there is no why ) Qualitative ethnographic: relating to the scientific description of peoples and cultures with their customs, habits (m. mead) Quantitative www. statcan. ca or how people vote. Descriptive: among the 9 largest census metropolitan areas, winnipeg had the highest homicide rate, followed by edmonton and vancouver. Explanatory: questioning why these results occur; demographic: age of population. Patterned association between variables: when you see one, you also see the other (when you see x, you see y) Temporal order (first cause, then effect): which comes first: ex: more educated less prejudice or less prejudice more educated, ex: higher grade higher evaluation for your professor or better professor higher grades.