SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Participant Observation, Content Analysis, Antipositivism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

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Learning outcomes: when you have completed this unit, you will, recognize the diverse ways of knowing, be able to apply the sociological perspective, the scientific approach to knowing". Interviews may also use closed- or open-ended formats what you are asking and know the answers to the questions; people will admit the answers to themselves and will give valid answers to others. In short, categories of people who were engaged/connected were protected from suicide. Conversely, to be either isolated or overly integrated into groups placed those categories of people at greater risk of suicide. Social change was a factor: economic changes, for example, can alter one"s social status, and thereby the rules (norms) that guide one"s behavior. Durkheim argued that unclear norms (durkheim called this anomie ) conduce to higher suicide rates. This suggests that durkheim"s research was both reliable (measures were consistent and consistent over time) and valid (durkheim measured what he intended to measure).