SOAN 2120 Lecture 2: SOAN2120 Comparing Qualitative and Quantitative Research

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2120
• Professor: D Walters

Document Summary

Large number of students not as many tas. Those characteristics found in the individuals who performed the study were compared to the nan. Humphries: tearoom trade; impersonal sex in public chicago, aldine. Phd dissertation: tearoom trade (homosexual encounters in public restrooms). Follow-up interview findings: typical people, expected them to be deviant highly influential b/c of how we conduct studies now. Every person in the study are anonyms (max study) They know the person in the study protects identity (min) Code of ethics (review boards) to make sure the rights, and well being take priority over the study we are learning. The law is a (cid:498)tricky(cid:499) area for social researchers. Statistics that summarize the central location of variables. X= 5 8 9 8 10 4 3 5 8 (each number is an observation, each number is a test score) Median= 3 4 5 5 8 8 8 9 10 =8. Organize from low to high and pick the middle number.