SOCI 1001H Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Operationalization, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Content Analysis
12 Nov 2016
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Methodology: unobtrusive research methods (primary and secondary analysis, content analysis, field research (ethnography, survey research, experiments. Analysis of the data tie back to theory. A statement of a relationship between two or more concepts (or variables: related somehow. A more specific statement which is easier to test" in the real world" than a theory. A statement of what you expect to observe in the empirical world (similar to a prediction) Can come from theories, or come from observations. Hypothesis must have an independent and dependent variable in them. Investigate: women have a greater tendency than men to initiate social interaction in a public situation, gender and social interaction as related. Hypothesis example 2: the greater the police presence, the safer the neighbourhood, police presence and neighbourhood safety as related. Measures of concepts that have more than one value. More specific and concrete able to be measured or observed. Value is an attribute or quality that makes up a variable.
