SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Deeper Understanding, Participant Observation
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Soc 100 lecture 2 research methods. Ideology vs. social science: ideology is closed, full of contradictions and does not allow tests, social science is open, flexible to improvement, logical and provides credible evidence. The steps to do research are: formulate a question, review literature, select method, collect data, analyse data, report results. Could be inductive or deductive: researcher becomes a part of a society and feels with them in order to understand them, assumptions, purpose, approach, role: Cannot use the research made to generalize. The hawthorne effect (someone who is aware that they are being. It takes skill and time observed will not act as they would naturally act: quantitative, assumptions: Objective reality (can identify things and put them into data sets) Manipulation and control in the statistics and numbers. Detached (making observations of what"s happening around you) To predict the cause: role, pros, cons:
