SOCI 313 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Grey Literature, Ecological Fallacy, Longitudinal Study

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 313
• Professor: T E Z Li

Document Summary

Idea (general) research questions (narrow the idea) literature review research design . Data generation method (specific tools can used to produce data) research proposal. Services provided to homeless families, services shaped the resources that were available to them. Science is a social institution concerned with producing knowledge. Science community is a collection of people who practice science. Research is a means to finding answers to questions and thus to produce knowledge. Scientific method is a set of ideas, rules and techniques, and approaches. Theory of research, reasoning for certain and research design. What can we know, what can we not know: refers to perceptions, how we view the world. Reality objectivism (pre-modern) -something exists depending on how we interpret it. Constructivism (modern) -no objective reality, but perceptions of that reality depends on how you look at it . They think we don"t have the full view, every perspective is different, different point of view.