SOC221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Antipositivism, Relate, Inductive Reasoning
4 Nov 2018
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Social research is a collection of methods and methodologies that researchers apply systematically to produce scienti cally based knowledge about the social world. Authority and experts: professors, scientists, parents, and media, dr. oz authority gure with md but under re for bs. Tradition: authority of the past, don"t go out with wet hair you"ll get sick, can be prejudicial to other cultural groups as it is resistant to change. Common sense: ordinary reasoning, birds of a feather ock together. Media myths: inaccurate collective beliefs or ideologies that are used to justify an idea, story, or practice, be very critical not to buy into stories. Personal experience: seeing is believing, four errors: Friday, september 14, 2018: overgeneralization: some information and you assume it applies to other situations as well (pitbul ban couple bad dogs have them all criminalized in. Transparency: allow research to be evaluated by others. Provisional: other researchers go over and analyze things researcher may have missed.
