SOAN 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Null Hypothesis, Central Limit Theorem, Sampling Frame

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

Document Summary

What is social science: environment, foundations of social thought, karl marx- conflict theory, key elements of conflict theory, conflict between competing groups, class struggle, equality of result, emile durkheim- functionalism, key elements of functionalism. Its functional serves a purpose: consensus, equality of opportunity, max weber- symbolic interactionalism, key elements of symbolic interactionism. Income dollars (sh-,000: categorical variables, gender, field of study, province (ontario, experiment. Qualitative research: does not involve statistics, sensitive information (issues, establish rapport, not restricted by rigorous research agenda. Sept 26, 2017: questions from standard deviants. Oct 3, 2017: calculating p-values, statistics tables how do we know that a z-score of plus or minus 2 translates to a p-value of . 05, calculus, what have we been doing, summarizing distributions, normal distribution, probabilities. Is a particular value different from the mean: new topic, statistical inference, using sample information to estimate population values, normal distribution, just as variables have distributions, sample statistics have distributions as well, statistical inference.