SOC101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Empirical Relationship
22 Sep 2016
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Soc 101 lecture 4 notes - sept 21, 2016. Closed-ended (yes/no) to open-ended (broad, non-leading questions with open answers) Photo-interviews (people take photos of their answers to generate conversation) Some potential sources of data would be transcripts, note taking, and photos from interviews. Examine people/groups in their own environment in order to understand the meanings they attribute to their activities. From full participant, to semi-participant, to non-participant. (some) potential sources of data like written field notes, pictures, videos, other materials. Examines the large scale social patterns and employs statistics and other mathematical means of analysis. Data comes from surveys which are questionnaires that are administered to a sample of respondents selected from a target population. A researcher will investigate whether an independent variable influences changes in the dependent variable. Independent variable comes first, dependent variable is effected by the independent variable, and follows the independent variable.
