SOCI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: System On A Chip, Spurious Relationship
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Exam: formulate question, review existing literature, select method, collect data, analyze data, report results. Choose research problem & theoretical perspective to sxplore problem. Construct testable hypothesis: suggest casual relationship between 2 of these variables. Choose research method argue why chosen (experiment, survey, secondary research using existing sources. Create operational definitions (allow empirical experimentation of both variables) Name control variables (third variable) think should be included: third variables: those which must beheld constant to ensure not looking at spurious correlation. Mental construct representing some aspect of world in simplified form. Abstract labels for social life and categorizing people: the family the economy . Concept that takes on two or more values in different types or amounts (how much) height, weight, income; type (gender), ethnicity; upper/middle/lower. Procedure for specifying exactly what sociologist is measureing with variable. Imagination & creativity in childhood: the influence of the family . Imagination & creativity (dependent variable)/ family influence (independent variable)
