SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Blind Experiment, Informed Consent, Indep
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Research used for more systematic investigation, for improvement of the discipline. Everything talked about relates to research in sociology. Important decision: collect data carrying out method gathering data. Participant observation into a rsrch field, participating, known, goal is to emirs into the demographic. Gov"t stats statscan, downloading relevant data tables removes a lot of effort: analyze data depends on nature of data. Analysis of field notes is different from numbers. Looking for patterns/relationships: report results amalgamation of findings, annual meeting can soc assoc. Peer review > reviewed by peers for authenticity. Independent variable > presumed cause in cause and effect relationship > x. Dependant variable > presumed effect in a cause and effect relationship > y. Extraneous variable > variables that are controlled for in the experiment that may affect the outcome of the experiment if changed and are therefore controlled for. Example concept level of education variable can change. Hs/undergrad/grad/phd/post-doc this is an example of a x.
