SOCI 1001H Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: High School Diploma, Content Analysis, Participant Observation

• School: Trent University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 1001H
• Professor: Deborah White

Document Summary

A statement of a relationship between two or more concepts (or variables) 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) Women have a greater tendency than men to initiate social interaction in a public situ- ation ( gender and social interaction as related) The greater the police presence, the safer the neighbourhood ( police presence and. Measures of concepts that have more than one value. Value is an attribute or quality that makes up a variable. Male is an attribute of the variable gender . High school diploma is an attribute of the variable education level . The greater the number of hours spent studying, the higher the grades . Independent variable = amount of study time . These vary" in relation to one another.