SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: White-Collar Crime, Official Statistics, Informed Consent
16 Oct 2017
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3 areas in which you are doing the research. Us is not restricted on the storage and possession of guns you have the right to shoot someone if they enter your property in the us) Experiments: well suited for hypothesis that needs testing. If control group is different than the experimental group than you can tell something is having an effect: advantages isolate the variable you want to study (good for looking at cause and effect) Ie howard becker masters thesis how to become a marijuana user wrote about his experiences. Ie nudist or exotic dancers: observe a small group that is connected in some way, commonly used in anthropology. Ethnography (whyte: emerge yourself in a culture for a long period of time (at least a year, the longer time you spend the better your research. Ie steven whyte street corner society spent 4 years in bostons north end to study gangs and the mafia to see how they operated.
