SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Stanford Prison Experiment, Operationalization, Content Analysis
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Epistemology: how do we know what we know. Common sense defence to tradition or authority limited scope unsystematic illogical reasoning rules govern observations/findings/conclusion design and sampling tactics for observation problems, goals, plans, hypothesis, criticism. Social science negotiated certainty, open welcome tests, changes with evidence logical consistency neutral. Ideology absolute, fixed, closed avoid tests, blind to evidence contradictions, inconsistencies highly partial. Inductive thinking moves from particular observation to the general. Quantitative generalization and prediction explaining one case in great set of cases using a handful of. Qualitative context and depth thinking moves from general to. Research cycle formulate question review existing literature select method collect data analyze data report results. Field research classifying and counting develop deep, sympathetic understanding of social world immersion ex. researcher joins gang (cannot use quantitative) Survey/interview ask people about their knowledge, attitude and behaviour closed-ended, semi-structured, unstructured ex.
