SOCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Qualitative Property, Scientific Method, List Of Sovereign States By Suicide Rate
14 Mar 2019
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Interested in lives and works of women, inequality between men and women. Replacing situation of inequality with equality: research methods. Authority: accept anything that people in authority wants us to believe. Tradition(belief/faith): special case of authority, authority from past. It makes us believe that this is the way it"s always been done. Common sense: we rely on what everyone knows. Personal experience: when something happens to us, we tend to believe that is the way it is. Sociological research uses scientific method; scientific sociology: using a scientific method. Quantitative data- in terms of numbers; stratification. Qualitative data- information expressed as words, pictures. Empirical- generated after tested against reality: using scientific method. Research process- they make up how research study is planned out. How to do it/ carry out: stages of research, formulating research problem. Where do research problems come from: research of others, trends of society, personal experience, objectivity- value free sociology weber.
