SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Official Statistics, Participant Observation, Organism

• School: UTM
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H5
• Professor: Jayne Baker

Document Summary

There is a lot of variations in the questions. It is a quantitative method that you could ask: con: hinges on the quality of the questions that are created. If the question is bad, then the survey is bad. Field research: participant observation, qualitative research; depth of understanding, guiding questions: a person has spent enough time in the research, so they know what kind of questions. Looking for patterns in the observation that you are making; for instance, setting: pros: to know the why and how. And not only the what kind of questions. Goal is to gain depth of understanding: cons: time consuming. Time and money saving: con: no control over data collection instrument. Someone else has decided what the focus of the research will be. Depending on the variables available, the research must be adjusted. Research ethics: confidentiality: the data may remain connected to personal identifying information. There is no effort to keep that separate.