SOAN 2120 Lecture Notes - Collectively Exhaustive Events, Formal Language, Jargon

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2120
• Professor: Scott Schau

Document Summary

Select a sample of respondents and give them a standardized questionnaire. Best method for collecting original data for describing a population too large to observe directly. Find an informant to answer he questions you have, that can answer your questions for you. Surveys are quick, interviews on the phone, web surveys or over the mail whereas an experiment takes long, you have to set up and do the experiment. Surveys have a lot more data in a time period whereas experiments have less data in the same time. Knowledge e. g. child education expectation, expectation of a new vehicle. Knowledge e. g. child education expectation, expectation of a new vehicle e. g. e. g. Questions you can ask about people"s knowledge e. g. how your gov. is doing e. g. stuff that describes the individuals. Closed ended questions should be mutually exclusive and jointly exhaustive. Keep an order of questions that will maintain the respondents interest. Pretest questions ahead of time to protect against errors.