SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Constructionism, Antipositivism, Family Values

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Values: standards by which members of a society assess their own and others" behaviour. Freedom picture (girl at the beach) freedom from restriction, vacation, fun. Deterministic: hypothesis, water boils at 100 degree celsius. Probabilistic: children from poor families are less likely to do well in school. Social contexts change democracy in the arab world, migration in. While studying sensitive issues permission: minimizing harm and maximizing benefit. Quantitative systematic approach closer to the scientific method. Aspects of social life numbers- statistical relationships between them are significant. Is the independent variable having an effect on the dependant variable. Causality evidence of correlation: evidence of correlation, temporal ordering, non spuriousness: absence of alternative explanations. Quantitative research: large, representative samples, precision (ex. Specific methods include: experiments, surveys, analysis of official data, content analysis. Experimental research methods: david schindler experimental lakes project (kenora, on, phosphorous harmful for health. Experiments: scientists manipulate an independent variable to see what happens to the dependent variable.

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