SOC 2109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sociological Perspectives, Content Analysis, Participant Observation

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2109
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

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Lecture 2: sociological perspectives: how we explore the world. Basic concepts and issues: although there are a number of methods and perspectives employed to study people, several important concepts are used in almost all research projects including things like, theories, hypotheses, variable, sampling. Different kinds of love; family, boyfriend, movies and pets and how you express love: relationship between variables, cause ---------------> effect. Social scientists rely on small groups of people, a sample, to reflect the thoughts, feelings, and behaviour of a larger group of humans, the population. Samples can be more or less representative of a larger population: probability samples: (ex. Random samples) are designed to represent the larger population: non-probability samples: include convenience and snowball samples, ex. Convenience include; specific type of research, very small sample size: the irb, all universities have internal review boards (irb"s) made up of academics from diverse fields to ensure that they follow professional ethical guidelines.