SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Content Analysis, Mass Suicide, Global Issue

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Karyn Freedman

Document Summary

Is well suited to research in a laboratory: demands that researchers be objective and suspend their personal values and biases as they conduct research. Interpretive sociology focuses on the meanings that people attach to behaviour. Interpretive sociology: sees reality as constructed by people in the course of their everyday lives, favours qualitative data. Research orientation and theory: scientific or positivist sociology is loosely linked to the structural-functional approach, critical sociology corresponds to the social-conflict approach. Interpretive sociology is related to the symbolic-interaction approach. Gender and research: gender, involving both researcher and subjects, can affect research in five ways, androcentricity, overgeneralizing, gender blindness, double standards. Research ethics: researchers must, protect the privacy of subjects, obtain the informed consent of subject. Indicate all sources of funding: submit research to an institutional review board (irb) to ensure it doesn"t violate ethical standards. Interview is a series of questions a researcher asks respondents in person people while joining them in their routine activities.