SCS 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Eyesteelfilm, John Vincent Atanasoff, Class Conflict

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Social Sciences
• Course: SCS 2150
• Professor: ivan Katchanovski

Document Summary

> ex: measuring life satisfaction, respondents who say they are satisfied may be given a code/value of 1 which is then recorded in a file. > respondents who say they are not satisfied may be given a code/value of 0 which is then recorded in a file. Theory developed from data and research questions answered. Concept: ideas or mental representations of things (ex: crime, gender, alienation, love, life, satisfaction) Coding: transforming a measure into numbers (variables) Variables provide measurement of concepts (contain different values) Measurement allows a delineation of small or fine differences between people or issues we are interested in. Measurement provides a way to identify and gauge those differences with consistency. It allows us to estimate and the strength of that relationship. Measurement: data is used to understand or quantify social phenomena, concepts, and their interrelations. Establishing causality: researchers want to know what causes social phenomena (prejudice, crime, class conflict dependent and independent variables)