SOCI 1001H Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Participant Observation, Content Analysis, Ethnography
8 Oct 2016
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Ex. / women have a greater tendency than men to initiate social interaction in a public situation. Two things are related: gender is somehow related to social interaction. Ex. / the greater the police presence, the safer the neighbourhood. Two things related: police presence is somehow related to neighbourhood safety. As one thing changes in some way [the amount of present police] the other thing changed [how safe the neighbourhood is: hypotheses are usually if/ then" statements or the __, then __". Variables [dependent/ independent antecedent/ intervening: measures of concepts that have more than one value, value: an attribute or quality that makes up a variable. Ex. / male" is an attribute of the variable gender". Independent: comes first in time, have an effect on the dependent: in any hypothesis there must be an independent and dependent variable. Ex. / the longer a student studies for a course, the higher that student"s grades tend to be.
