SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hawthorne Effect

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

Document Summary

Examining the social (lecture 4 jan. 26) There are a number of methods and perspecives employed to study people, several important concepts are used in almost all research projects including things like: theories. Social theories refer to organized sets of proposiions about how various elements of social life are related to one another. General predicions, based on these reasons, about how people will react to certain events, experiences or condiions: hypothesis. Research projects generally do not test theories but hypotheses which are speciic statements about how variables will relate to one another in a research study. Posiive indings regarding a hypothesis simply provides support for a theory; it does not prove a theory to be correct: variables (changes in diferent cases) Sociological knowledge is based on science, a logical organized method of obtaining informaion through direct, systemaic observaion. Scieniic knowledge is based on empirical evidence, informaion that is directly veriiable: we can be deceived.